Efficient way to reuse the same call to the same sql table - php

Question

So I search for this title hoping someone would have already answered it however, I came across similar topics on other languages but not PHP so maybe this will help others.
I am constantly using this following script to call on the database but how can I create it so that I can make it just once at the top of the class for example and use it in every method on the class page that needs it. Example: An single page may not have all of the data it needs from the same table but if the table contains 50% of the data or more for that page, how can I modify this so that I can just say it once and let the rest of the following scripts display the data it extracted in the first place by calling it all just once?
Here's what I have now.
<?php
if($res = $dbConn->query("SELECT Column FROM Table")){
while($d = $res->fetch_assoc()){
printf("Enter HTML here with proper %s", $d['Column']);
}
}
?>
I want to call on this without the printf(" "); collect and store the data so that I can then call the results while printing or echoing the results with the HTML in other methods. What os the most efficient way? I don't want to make the same call over and over and over... well, you get the point.
Should I use fetch_array or can I still do it with fetch_assoc?

Answer 1

not very sure if it's the answer you want.
you can use include/include_once/require/require_once at the top of the page you want to use the function
for example:
general_function.php:
-----
function generate_form( $dbConn, $sql ) {
if($res = $dbConn->query("SELECT Column FROM Table")) {
while($d = $res->fetch_assoc()) {
printf("Enter HTML here with proper %s", $d['Column']);
}
}
}
and for those pages you want to use the function, just put
include "$PATH/general_function.php";
and call generate_form

Answer 2

Try this:
class QueryStorage {
public static $dbConn = null;
public static $results = [];
public static function setConnection($dbConn) {
self::$dbConn = $dbConn;
}
public static function query($query, $cache = true) {
$result = (array_key_exists($query, self::$results))?
self::$results[$query] : self::$dbConn->query($query);
if($cache) {
self::$results[$query] = $result;
}
return $result;
}
public static function delete($query) {
unset(self::$results[$query]);
}
public function clean() {
self::$results = [];
}
}
usage:
at top somewhere pass connection to class:
QueryStorage::setConnection($dbConn);
query and store it:
$result = QueryStorage::query("SELECT Column FROM Table", true);
if($result){
while($d = $result->fetch_assoc()){
printf("Enter HTML here with proper %s", $d['Column']);
}
}
reuse it everywhere:
$result = QueryStorage::query("SELECT Column FROM Table", true); // it will return same result without querying db second time
Remember: it's runtime cache and will not store result for second script run. for this purposes You can modify current class to make it
work with memcache, redis, apc and etc.

Answer 3

If I understood you correctly, then the trick is to make an associative array and access with its 'key' down the code.
$dataArray = array();
// Add extra column in select query for maintaining uniqness. 'id' or it can be any unique value like username.
if($res = $dbConn->query("SELECT Column,id FROM Table")){
while($d = $res->fetch_assoc()){
$dataArray[$d['id']] = $d['Column'];
}
}
//you have value in the array use like this:
echo $dataArray['requireValueId'];
//or , use 'for-loop' if you want to echo all the values

Answer 4

You need a function which takes in the query as a parameter and returns the result.
Like this:
public function generate_query($sql) {
if($res = $dbConn->query($sql)){
while($d = $res->fetch_assoc()){
printf("Enter HTML here with proper %s", $d['Column']);
}
}
}