I'm wondering if it's possible, and in case it is, how shoud I achive that:
$this->id <-- i have such thing. but to make it more usable i'd like to have $this->(and here to change the values)
for ex: I might have $this->id $this->allID $this->proj_id
how can I make so that actually I have $this->($myvariable here, that has a unique name in it)?
You can simply use this:
$variable = 'id';
if ( isset ( $this->{$variable} ) )
{
echo $this->{$variable};
}
Here is the solution : http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#language.oop5.overloading.members
An example of using it is here :
class myClass {
/** Location for overloaded data. */
private $myProperties = array();
public function __set($name, $value)
{
$this->myProperties[$name] = $value;
}
public function __get($name)
{
if (array_key_exists($name, $this->myProperties))
{
return $this->data[$name];
}
}
}
You should check out the variable variables manual on the PHP site. With that, it could look like:
<?php
echo ${'this->'.$yourvariable};
?>
I prefer to use call_user_func and pass the parameters as array instead.
public function dynamicGetterExample()
{
$property = 'name'; // as an example...
$getter = 'get'.ucfirst($property);
$value = call_user_func(array($this,$getter));
if (empty($value)) {
throw new \Exception('Required value is empty for property '.$property);
}
return $value;
}
