Hopefully I've phrased the question correctly. Here's what I am trying do.
When I retrieve a custom object from the db I would like to construct strings from various field values and have them available as a property of that object only at runtime. I can extend the model generated from the schema to provide a custom method to do this, but I have been trying to achieve the same with a constructor method, so that the temporary properties are available in every object without having to call a function.
The first example below works fine but doesn't automatically create the property. The second example doesn't work because it creates a new empty object when the parent constructor is called rather than adding the property to the object instantiated with $object = $this->modx->getObject('myCustomTable', $id)
Please can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
class myCustomTable extends xPDOSimpleObject {
public $runtime_property;
public function get_runtime_property() {
return $this->getOne('RelatedTable')->get('value') . $this->another_value;
}
}class myCustomTable extends xPDOSimpleObject {
public $runtime_property;
public function __construct(& $modx) {
parent::__construct($modx);
$this->runtime_property = $this->getOne('RelatedTable')->get('value') . $this->another_value;
}
}
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