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Paradigm
Paradigm

Reputation: 371

Accessing results from another method

Hi I'm relatively new to OOP PHP and trying to get my head around a few concepts. I have two methods one public and one private.

The public function is parameter is being filled by a get value and then it uses the private method to query the database.

public function viewProject($id) {

    if (!intval($id)) {
        $this->projectError = 'The requested project must be a numeric value';
        return false;
    }

    if (!$this->findProject($id)) {
        $this->projectError = 'The specified project was not found.';
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

private function findProject($pid) {
    $data = $this->_db->get("projects", array('id', "=", $pid));
    return  $data->results();
}

I want to be able to store the results from the findProject method in a var like

$this->projectName = //result here for name

However I'm not entirely sure how to access the results from the query in the public method.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (2)

Hikariii
Hikariii

Reputation: 331

All poperties of a class, public, protected and private can be accessed in every method of that class. If you define projectName as a (private) property, it can be accessed in every other method.

Also, your query result is probably a multi-dimensional array, so you have to retrieve the projectName value yourself from the result.

class A
{
    protected $projectName;

    public function viewProject($id) {
        if (!intval($id)) {
            $this->projectError = 'The requested project must be a numeric value';
            return false;
        }

        $results = $this->findProject($id);
        if (!$results) {
            $this->projectError = 'The specified project was not found.';
            return false;
        }

        //Parse results
        //assuming $this->_db->get() returns a multi-dimensional array
        //assuming 'projectName' corresponds is the db column name
        $this->projectName = $results[0]['projectName'];

        return true;
    }

    private function findProject($pid) {
        $data = $this->_db->get("projects", array('id', "=", $pid));
        return  $data->results();
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

FastTurtle
FastTurtle

Reputation: 1787

Try

public function viewProject($id) {
    if (!intval($id)) {
        $this->projectError = 'The requested project must be a numeric value';
        return false;
    }
    $this->$project = $this->findProject($id); //project has the value
    if (!$project) {
        $this->projectError = 'The specified project was not found.';
        return false;
    }



    return true;

}

private function findProject($pid) {
    $data = $this->_db->get("projects", array('id', "=", $pid));
    return  $data->results();

}

hope it helps :)

Upvotes: 0

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