<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_fetch_object</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_fetch_lengths" HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_fetch_row" HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-fetch-object" ></A >mysql_fetch_object</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN58766" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_fetch_object -- Fetch a result row as an object</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN58769" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >object <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_fetch_object</B > ( resource result)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns an object with properties that correspond to the fetched row, or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > if there are no more rows. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_object()</B > is similar to <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_array()</B ></A >, with one difference - an object is returned, instead of an array. Indirectly, that means that you can only access the data by the field names, and not by their offsets (numbers are illegal property names). </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php /* this is valid */ echo $row->field; /* this is invalid */ echo $row->0; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > Speed-wise, the function is identical to <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_array()</B ></A >, and almost as quick as <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_row()</B ></A > (the difference is insignificant). <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN58787" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_object()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php mysql_connect("hostname", "user", "password"); mysql_select_db($db); $result = mysql_query("select * from table"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { echo $row->user_id; echo $row->fullname; } mysql_free_result($result); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_array()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_fetch_row()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-lengths.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-fetch-row.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_fetch_lengths</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_fetch_row</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >