How can I group by column value in a yii query? - php

Question

I have a data table with 7 columns and 400 records. One of them is budget. I want to group the 400 rows by budget so that I get an array like this:
[budget]=>array(
[0]=>array(
[column1]=>'1',
[column2]=>'sand'
),
[1]=>array(
[column1]=>'2',
[column2]=>'clay'
)
)
[budget2]=>array(
[0]=>array(
[column1]=>'3',
[column2]=>'silt'
),
[1]=>array(
[column1]=>'4',
[column2]=>'stone'
)
)
So far I have been playing around with Yii's CdbCommand and CdbDataReader and PHP's PDOStatement but nothing is working right. I tried the following code
public function actionBidCostByBudget(){
$command = Yii::app()->db
->createCommand()
->Select('*')
->From('bid_cost')
# ->Query()
;
echo '<pre>';
echo get_class($command);
$pdostatement=$command->getPdoStatement();
if($pdostatement) echo get_class($pdostatement);
# print_r($statement->fetchall(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN|PDO::FETCH_GROUP));
# print_r($command->readall());
# print_r($statement->fetch());
# $columnsArray = BidCost::attributeLabels();
//print_r($rowsArray);
//$this->layout='\\layout';
}
The attempts to print_r all print out with nothing. getPdoStatement equals nothing. I have been trying to use PDO::FETCH_COLUMN|PDO::FETCH_GROUP as per the Php.net website, but it does not work either because I get nothing.

Answer 1

One of Yii's strengths is it's ActiveRecord, so why not use it?
Make your budget to a separate table (so you can generate a model from it). Reference it from your "datatable".
CREATE TABLE budget (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
name TEXT
);
CREATE TABLE datatable(
column1 TEXT,
column2 TEXT,
...
budget_id INTEGER,
FOREIGN KEY(budget_id) REFERENCES budget(id)
);
Next generate models with Gii, and now you can use your newly made relations like this:
$budget = Budget::model()->findByAttributes( ["name"=>"budget2"] );
foreach( $budget->datatables as $dt ) {
echo $dt->column1;
echo $dt->column2;
}
(I know. Not the array you asked for. Sorry if I'm way off with this.)

Answer 2

Alright, the bottom line is that I was not able to find a way to do this right thru Yii, so I did it with a more hands-on approach.
The first thing I did was basically initiate a database connection thru Yii.
$command = Yii::app()->db //outputs CDbConnnection
The next thing I did was get a PDO class from the connection:
$pdoinstance = $command->getPdoInstance(); //outputs PDO class
From this point, it was help obtained from PHP.net and another question posted on this forum:
$pdostatement=$pdoinstance->prepare('SELECT BUDGET_CODE,
PAY_ITEM, ITEM, DESCRIPTION FROM bidcost');
$pdostatement->execute();
//default fetch mode could not be set
# $pdostatement->setfetchmode(PDO::FETCH_GROUP|PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
//returns array
$testarray=$pdostatement->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_GROUP|PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);