Question

I’m new to “Object Oriented” PHP, but have managed to figure most things out so far. I’m building a website where users can register an account and then add, let’s say, hobbies onto their profile.

I’ve managed to figure out creating the class, object, storing a single user in the database, and retrieving a single user from the database – creating a new object from the associative array that is returned from the SQL “select” query.

Where I am now getting stuck is when I need it to return multiple rows (records) from the database. For example, a user may have 7 hobbies; the SQL query returns all 7 rows into an associative array (with fields e.g. hobby_id, hobby_name, hobby_created), but how then do I make each one of those rows/hobby records into its own object?

I have tried searching all sorts of terms but I don’t know if I’m just missing the buzz word that I need to search for. If anyone could please let me know the best way to go about this I would be eternally greatful.

Many thanks,
Steve

Answer 1

When you have an array of hobbies, create the hobby objects in a foreach.

$hobby = Array();
foreach ($query->results as $row)
  $hobby = new Hobby($row['person_id'], $row['hobby']...

or perhaps a hash of objects.