Re: Extending PEAR DB

["Benjamin R. Webb" <brwebb@transmuto.com>] > > $obj = (object)$result->fetchRow(); > > > That being said, having a fetch mode for objects could be very useful > > if you can specify what class or object to use. > > > - Stig > > > -- > Stig, > > Did I understand correctly that you want to be able to cast a query > result to an arbitrary object? I've been working out a way to do > that in my head, but I don't want to put it to code if I misunderstood. > > I'm still not sure that we shouldn't put this in a seperate set of functions > as it will break the consistant array return type. Thoughts? You can cast an array to an object and convert assoc key/value pairs to properties. Example: <?php var_dump((object)null); var_dump((object)42); var_dump((object)"blah"); var_dump((object)array("foo" => 1, "bar" => 2)); ?> Output: object(stdClass)(2) { } object(stdClass)(1) { ["scalar"]=> int(42) } object(stdClass)(1) { ["scalar"]=> string(4) "blah" } object(stdClass)(2) { ["foo"]=> int(1) ["bar"]=> int(2) } In the example above there are two special return values, an error object or NULL. The cast won't change the error object of course, but the NULL value will change to an empty object that you can test with "sizeof(get_object_vars($o)) == 0". - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway