PHP/MySQL:如何从PHP数据库方法获取多个值
对这个令人难以置信的新手问题深表歉意，但是如果我不问我，我会发现自己陷入了不良习惯之中.
Sorry for the incredibly newbie question, but I can see myself drifting into bad practices if I don't ask.
我有一个PHP方法，我想返回给定数据库列的所有值，以便将内容放在HTML表单的下拉菜单中.我显然可以在PHP方法中构造整个HTML并将其作为字符串返回，但是我认为这是非常糟糕的做法.
I have a PHP method that I want to return all the values of a given database column, in order to place the contents in a dropdown menu for a HTML form. I could obviously construct the whole HTML in the PHP method and return that as a string, but I imagine this is pretty bad practice.
由于PHP方法只能返回一个值，我想我需要多次调用该方法以填充下拉菜单，或从该方法传递一个数组.
Since PHP methods can only return one value, I imagine I'll need to call the method several times to populate the dropdown menu, or pass an array from the method.
什么是解决这个(大概)常见问题的好方法?谢谢.
What would be a good solution to this (presumably) common problem? Thanks.
好吧，数组是一个值，包含大量其他值.因此，只需让您的方法返回结果数组即可.
Well, an array is one value, containing tons of other values. So just have your method return a array of results.
edit:正如Hammerstein指出的那样，您可以使用对象，但取决于上下文，其效果与数组一样好/坏.非常相似.
edit: as Hammerstein points out you could use objects but its as good/bad as arrays depending on context. Very similar.