Please HELP to retrieve all records in PL/SQL --Still waiting for solution

Question

First of all, I am a PL/SQL beginner. I need help to retrieve all records in PL/SQL from a database (maybe anyone could give me an example). Here is my code, but this code is only able to retrieve one records only. I would like to create a web service by using PL/SQL to view data in a table.
CREATE or REPLACE package body DRIVER_FETCHER as
FUNCTION get_driver(driver_id in VARCHAR2) RETURN driver_rec IS
driver_found tblDrivers%rowtype;
driver_rtn driver_rec;
BEGIN
SELECT *
INTO driver_found
FROM tblDrivers;
WHERE tblDrivers.lngDriverID=driver_id;
driver_rtn := driver_rec
driver_found.lngDriverID,
driver_found.strTitle,
driver_found.strFirstName,
driver_found.strLastName,
driver_found.dteDOB,
driver_found.dteDateLicensed,
driver_found.strLicenseReference,
driver_found.strAddress_Street,
driver_found.strAddress_TownVillage,
driver_found.strAddress_Country,
driver_found.strAddress_PostCode,
driver_found.strContactDayPhone,
driver_found.strContactNightPhone
RETURN driver_rtn;
END;
END;
and here is the tblDrivers table
CREATE or REPLACE type DRIVER_REC as object
lngDriverID varchar2(10),
strTitle varchar2(5),
strFirstName varchar2(20),
strLastName varchar2(20),
dteDOB date,
dteDateLicensed date,
strLicenseReference varchar2(30),
strAddress_Street varchar2(50),
strAddress_TownVillage varchar2(20),
strAddress_Country varchar2(15),
strAddress_PostCode varchar2(10),
strContactDayPhone varchar2(20),
strContactNightPhone varchar2(20)
CREATE or REPLACE package DRIVER_FETCHER as
FUNCTION get_driver(driver_id IN VARCHAR2) RETURN driver_rec;
END;
Thank You,
Paul
Message was edited by:
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Message was edited by:
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Message was edited by:
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Answer 1

Hi,
you will enjoy reading
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96624/toc.htm
for a fundamental understanding of PL/SQL.
You can do a "select * from t;" only in SQL, not in PL/SQL. There you have to open a cursor and fetch the results into a variable, e.g.:
declare
cursor c_example
is
   select * from emp;
begin
   for r_example in c_example loop
       dbms_output.put_line(r_example.empno);
   end loop;
end;This is an explicit cursor, opened within an "cursor for"-loop. The results are fetched into a (implicitly declared) record "r_example". The record now holds the values of one row from the emp table. The loop ends when all record from emp where fetched.
Regards,
Gerd