Comments on: Using PHP Generic Objects To Organize Your Code

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:51:54 +0000

Simplify by using

mysql_fetch_object($row, ‘generic’)

This will populate all the fields of the given object using returned rows. It returns the new object.

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By: Thomas Eng

Thomas Eng — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:07:25 +0000

You could alse do:

function puts($s) {
print $s . “\n”;
}

class Object {
function __construct() {
$a = array_shift( func_get_args() );
foreach($a as $key => $value) {
$this->{$key} = $value;
}
}
}
$o = new Object(array( “name” => “John Doe”, “age” => 31) );
puts($o->name);
puts($o->age);

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:31:54 +0000

@azwan: I don’t do anything too terrible advanced with this class, although you could. That’s the beauty in its simplicity!

By: azwan

azwan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:34:47 +0000

David, thanks for sharing this. I just started learning about OOP and this class really helps. Simple and seems practical.

Anyway, some questions to ask (maybe other ppl can also help)

Will you use this generic class as a class for other classes to inherit/extend?
What about retrieving mulitple records (will it be array in array) in vars?

I’m thinking of using the class for mainly data retrieving/manipulation from database.

Thanks in advance.

By: david

david — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:03 +0000

@Sat: I’ll fix this. Stupid WordPress…

By: Sat Pirott

Sat Pirott — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:57 +0000

Hey Dave! Nice class you have there! Did not think about this option before. But anyways, there is a big ‘error’ (if I can call it like that) which I like to point to. It’s not in the code, rather ‘visual’. After the heading “Database Usage” the whole content get’s bold, up to here! Dunno why, but it looks REALLY ugly! Hope you’ll fix that for others :-).

By: Marc A. Champlain

Marc A. Champlain — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:07 +0000

I code only in PHP5 so I don’t know for earlier version, but you could simply do:

$person = (object) null; // or $person = new stdClass();
$person->name = “Marc”;
$person->age = “28″;
echo $person->age;

By: Christian Roy

Christian Roy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:01:17 +0000

IMHO, your class is too “generic” :)

Seems to be an excuse to use OOP.

I use Objects whenever I feel it is necessary, but I remind myself that every tool has its purpose. I wouldn’t use your class everywhere like you seem to be doing. I would use an ORM: something like Propel or Doctrine or even DB_DataObject (PEAR) or PDO for handling data from an SQL. I would use a class like PEAR’s Config for site-wide variables. I try to avoid re-inventing the wheel and I use stuff that already exists as much as possible.

Your code is very clean and almost perfectly consistent in its format. I like that :) Your braces in your ctor should follow the same format as your other methods.

You should use an existing documentation format like phpDocumentor to automatically generate API docs.

I agree with the others about using magic functions if you would be working in a PHP5 only environment.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. :)