PHP 5. I'm in a situation where I need to translate a case-insensitive url query to member variables in a PHP object. Basically, I need to know what member variable the url query key points to so I can know if it's numeric or not.
For example:
class Foo{
$Str;
$Num;
}
myurl.com/stuff?$var=value&num=1
When processing this URL query, I need to know that "str" associates with Foo->$Str, etc. Any ideas on how to approach this? I can't come up with anything.
Try something like this.
function fooHasProperty($foo, $name) {
$name = strtolower($name);
foreach ($foo as $prop => $val) {
if (strtolower($prop) == $name) {
return $prop;
}
}
return FALSE;
}
$foo = new Foo;
// Loop through all of the variables passed via the URL
foreach ($_GET as $index => $value) {
// Check if the object has a property matching the name of the variable passed in the URL
$prop = fooHasProperty($foo, $index);
// Object property exists already
if ($prop !== FALSE) {
$foo->{$prop} = $value;
}
}
And it may help to take a look at php's documentation on Classes and Objects.
Example:
URL: myurl.com/stuff?var=value&num=1
Then $_GET looks like this:
array('var' => 'value', 'num' => '1')
Looping through that, we would be checking if $foo has a property var, ($foo->var) and if it has a property num ($foo->num).
$index = strtolower($index); $foo->{$index}. @user2177707 - Do your object properties follow a naming convention? Like all lowercase except the first letter, all uppercase, etc?CamelCase and CAMELcase, but that would be a poor design strategy anyways.