Question

Each time I post some info from my web app to the server i send it to a PHP file. this php file then calls a function that put the info into the database. This is the general idea right ? 🙂

The only problem is that I find myself creating a php file for each function call! I have one for creating a “task”, one for creating a “user” one for toggleing a variable, one for setting a variable …..etc.

I don’t know how else to do it. Even though I keep all my PHP database functions in one file, I find that I have to make a new file for each post call I do.

Example 1:

<?php
include 'databasefunctions.php';
inserttaskDB();
?>-

Example 2:

<?php
include 'databasefunctions.php';
inserthelpoffers($_POST[task_id],$_SESSION[id],$_POST[help_offer]);
?>

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I find that I’m organizing my code badly. How can I better organize my code?

Answer 1

I think I know what you are doing. When you send a post request to a php page via your app ypu call a function in that file to store the data into db. The problem seems to be you send this post request to multiple PHP files instead of one. So here is a quick fix for this.

//I believe your databasefunctions.php has all the functions like
function inserttaskDB($task){
   //SQL query to insert
}

function inserthelpoffers($taskId,$id,$helper){
   // SQL query to insert helper offer
}

Now what you can do is have only one file like getDataFromMobile.php
so when you send data to getDataFromMobile send one more variable called func(for function)

//Now in your getDataFromMobile you can use a switch statement

$functionName = $_POST["func"];

switch($functionName){
    case "inserttaskDB":
        //Gets all your post iformation here and call the respective function
    break;
    case "inserthelpoffers":
      inserthelpoffers($_POST[task_id],$_SESSION[id],$_POST[help_offer]);
    break;
}

This is a very quick fix. I personally would tend towards OOP in such cases.

Hope this helps,
Dins