have a look at dbdo in cvs.php.net/pecl/dbdo, or look at the source for the midgard php extension, both of them do this.
Regards Alan On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:40 -0500, Chris Cranford wrote: > I want to have a function that returns an object that essentially looks like > the following: > > $user->name; // string that holds name of user > $user->from; // string that holds where user is from > $user->update(); // method that updates changed user data to db (**unsure > how to code this) > > In my php script, I have defined a function "getuser" I call that returns > this object. > Here is a sample from my script: > > <?php > $user = getuser(); > echo "Your username is ".$user->name." from ".$user->from; > $user->from = "Nowhereville, USA"; > $user->update(); // updates user record and saves to db > ?> > > Is there any specific or standard way I should be creating this object? > Right now my code looks like this: > > ZEND_FUNCTION(getuser) { > TUser u; > if(GetLoggedInUser(&u)) { > if(object_init(return_value)==SUCCESS) { > add_property_string(return_value,"name",u.Info.Name,1); > add_property_string(return_value,"from",u.From,1); > // need to add a reference to the update function here ?? > // unclear how to do this. > return; > } > } > RETURN_NULL(); > } > > And how do I go about adding that "update()" function to my object to handle > a function > call to commit the object changes to the database? > > Thanks > Chris > -- Alan Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php