Modifying Component Topic is solved

[iatigerhawk]

I have been trying to understand the workings of the component tutorial but seem to be a little stumped. I don't have much experience with php or joomla so that just adds to the confusion. I was able to modify the component tutorial to call my test db and return multiple values but that is where I have been stuck. From what I can gather JTable only allows you to return one row from the database. I am trying to make a component that can display multiple rows from the database and am having trouble finding an alternative to JTable. Can anyone point me to the best place to understand/compare all of the php classes Joomla has?

[annahersh]

There are multiple methods to out put db table rows
loadRow()
loadRowList()

See some usage guide at https://docs.joomla.org/Selecting_data_using_JDatabase

[toivo]

The following tutorial is a good starting point: https://docs.joomla.org/Accessing_the_d ... _JDatabase

The next step could be the API: https://api.joomla.org/cms-3/classes/JD ... river.html

[iatigerhawk]

Thanks for the responses. I have looked through the database tutorial in the past. I will look again. It sounds as if I should not be trying to use JTable but instead use JDatabase? Thanks again for the information.