Subject RE: [firebird-php] Re: What approach are people using? ORM for FB
Author Alan McDonald
> > part of you workorder class in PHP is an object called
> JobWorkers. It's an
> > array of type Workers. So you can have nil or many objects of workers in
> > every Workorders class. You Workers class has a parameter
> which, when set,
> > pupolates the workers class with workers of a particular type, i.e. of a
> > particular workorder. Is that something like what you need?
>
> That's exactly what I need. I completely forgot to consider arrays as
> properties. I think in this case that there are 3 key 'repeating' values
> that come back from the database for this (Worker ID, Worker Name, and
> Worker Rate), so would you think it would be best to have one
> array property
> to the Job Class for JobWorker, but have that array contain 3 arrays for
> these values?
>
> Am I thinking TOO database here, and not enough Object/Class?
>
> Myles

keep it simple, the array I was suggesting was an array of the class object
you already have (i.e. the Workers class). It will then have all the
contents of your workers objects for that workorder.
Alan