Question

Situation

Consider I’ve got the following class structure:

// a user model
class UserModel extends BaseModel {
    protected static $table = 'Users';
}

// a controller for the user model 
class UserModelController extends BaseModelController {
    protected static $model = 'UserModel';
}

// a base model
class BaseModel {
    protected static $table = '';
}

// a base model controller
class BaseModelController {
    protected static $model = '';
}

What I want

What I want to do now is to have basic functionality in both base controller and base model, for example adding the function delete() into the BaseModelController:

public static function delete($id) {
    $stmt = Database::prepare('DELETE FROM `' . $table . '` WHERE `id`=?');
    $res  = $stmt->execute(array($id));
}

The problem

How do I get the table name? Theoretically I am searching for something like the following:

$table = static::$model::$table;

But, unfortunately this does not work. Is this even possible?

Answer 1

You need to save static::$model into a temporary variable:

$model = static::$model;
$table = $model::$table;