How can i retrieve all the records from a table in SugarCRM?

Question

I am using Sugar Pro 6.1 and want to know that how can i retrieve all the products with their ids from the products table. I am trying with the following code

$sql = "SELECT id, name FROM products order by name"; 
$result = $GLOBALS["db"]->query($sql);
$products = $GLOBALS["db"]->fetchByAssoc($result);

but it always returns only the first record.

Is it possible to grab all the products with their ids to display them in a html dropdown, i want to display that drop down in a javascript file thats why i am using the ajax call and in a seperate php file i am using the above code that returns the ouput to the ajax call.

Any help will be appreciated!

Answer 1

fetchByAssoc() only grabs one record at a time. Instead, you need to iterate thru calling fetchByAssoc() like this...

$sql = "SELECT id, name FROM products order by name"; 
$result = $GLOBALS["db"]->query($sql);
while ( $product = $GLOBALS["db"]->fetchByAssoc($result) ) {
     $products[] = $product;
}