From 3810b2807f35c3fc45975b95a3a10d2ad710c36d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheMrNomis <n0m1s@homnomnom.fr>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:19:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added getCategories

---
 databaseOperations.php | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/databaseOperations.php b/databaseOperations.php
index ca0e47b..bec526b 100755
--- a/databaseOperations.php
+++ b/databaseOperations.php
@@ -25,6 +25,29 @@ function connect()
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief queries all the categories from the dabase
+ * @param $db: the PDO connection to the database
+ * @return al list of all the categories (id, name)
+ */
+function getCategories($db)
+{
+    try
+    {
+        $request = $db->prepare('SELECT id, nom_cat, sous_cat FROM categorie ORDER BY sous_cat ASC');
+        $request->execute();
+        $result = $request->fetchAll();
+        $request->closeCursor();
+        return $result;
+    }
+    catch(PDOException $e)
+    {
+        //NOTE: change $e->getMessage() by an error message before going to production
+        echo($e->getMessage());
+        die();
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * @brief queries all the events from the database
  * @param $db: the PDO connection to the database