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In programming languages there are 2 patterns for selecting records from the database:

//prepare SELECT statement
while($record = $query->fetchRow())
{
    //do the job
}

And the second:

//prepare SELECT statement
$recordsArray = $query->fetchAllRows();
//do the job with all the records in a 2-dimensional array

To my surprise only the second option is available in JDatabaseQuery: loadRowList, loadAssocList etc.

When I tried:

$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query->select(array('id', 'name'))
    ->from($db->quoteName('#__my_table'));

$db->setQuery($query);
while($row = $db->loadAssoc())
{
    var_dump($row);
}

It hanged. Can I fetch the records one by one rather then get a 2-dimensional array?

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There are quite a few methods of Joomla's db driver that are not documented on the doc page. The API summary page for 3.8 is here

https://api.joomla.org/cms-3/classes/JDatabaseDriver.html

What you're looking for is the iterator.

$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query->select('id,name')->from($db->qn('#__my_table'));
$db->setQuery($query);
$iterator = $db->getIterator();
foreach($iterator as $row){
    var_dump($row);
}

It will return one stdClass at a time and you can 'break' out of the loop to stop it running.

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  • We can get a record as a class only? No arrays? – user4035 Feb 4 '18 at 1:07
  • The iterator only returns objects (which you could just cast to arrays as they're always simple 1 dimensional objects). Is there a reason you want 1 row at a time? Why not just load the data and loop through it? If there's too many to hold in memory then just chunk through. I've never seen anyone use the iterator. – jamesgarrett Feb 4 '18 at 1:16
  • I thought that using an iterator may be faster as inside loadAssocList Joomla must be iterating across the records, attaching them to array. – user4035 Feb 4 '18 at 1:27

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