$wpdb->get_row() only returns a single row?

Question

Why is it? I tried the same query in the console and it returned multiple rows. Here's the query:

$this->wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM ".$this->wpdb->users." WHERE status = 'active'", ARRAY_A);

It keeps returning the same single row when there are several active users. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Indeed, use get_row() only when you expect to get one result, else you can use get_results()

Answer 2

There are three ways to pull data from the database.

1.$wpdb->get_var:use this to get a single value from the database table. Like if you want to count the total number of comments. You can do it in following way:

<?php 
$comment_count = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->comments;")); 
echo '<p>Total comments: ' . $comment_count . '</p>';
?>

2.$wpdb->get_row : To retrieve an entire table row you can use this.

Example:

<?php 
$thepost = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = 1" ) );
echo $thepost->post_title; 
?>

OR

<?php 
$thepost = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = 1" ), ARRAY_A );
print_r ($thepost); 
?>

By using the ARRAY_A parameter in get_row your post data is returned as an associative array. Alternatively, you could use the ARRAY_N parameter to return your post data in a numerically indexed array.

3.$wpdb->get_results:Standard SELECT queries should use the get_results function for retrieving multiple rows of data from the database.

<?php 
$allposts = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish'") );
foreach ($allposts as $singlepost) { 
         echo '<p>' .$singlepost->post_title. '</p>';
}
?>

and you need the last one, as you can expect.

Answer 3

$wpdb->get_row('query', output_type, row_offset); row_offset (integer) The desired row (0 being the first). Defaults to 0.

va http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb