Not sure the best way of phrasing this so bear with me.
Within Codeigniter I can return a record set of my object no problem but this is returned as a stdClass object not as an "model" object (for example a Page Object) which I can then use to make use of other methods within that model.
Am I missing a trick here? Or is this the standard functionality within CI?
Yes, basically in order for this to work you need to declare your Model objects properties class-wide, and refer to $this being the current model object.
class Blogmodel extends CI_Model {
var $title = '';
var $content = ''; // Declare Class wide Model properties
var $date = '';
function __construct()
{
// Call the Model constructor
parent::__construct();
}
function get_entry()
{
$query = $this->db->query('query to get single object');
$db_row = $query->row(); //Get single record
$this->title = $db_row->title;
$this->content = $db_row->content; //Populate current instance of the Model
$this->date = $db_row->date;
return $this; //Return the Model instance
}
}
I believe get_entry() will return an object type Blogmodel.
function get_entry($id) { return $this->db->where('id', $id)->get('blog_table')->row(0, "Blogmodel"); }?
You don't need sth like:
$this->title = $db_row->title; $this->content = $db_row->content; //Populate current instance of the Model $this->date = $db_row->date;
Just put to the result() method ur model:
result(get_class($this));
or
result(get_called_class());
And you'll get instance of ur model!
My solution to this problem consisted of a combination of jondavidjohn's answer and mkoistinen's comment.
According to the CodeIgniter documentation:
You can also pass a string to result() which represents a class to instantiate for each result object (note: this class must be loaded)
Armed with that knowledge, we can rewrite jondavidjohn's solution in this way:
class Blogmodel extends CI_Model {
var $title = '';
var $content = ''; // Declare Class wide Model properties
var $date = '';
function __construct()
{
// Call the Model constructor
parent::__construct();
}
function get_entry()
{
$query = $this->db->query('query to get single object');
$blogModel = $query->row('Blogmodel'); //Get single record
return $blogModel; //Return the Model instance
}
}
