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Add rows inside Object itself

quadro — Mar 12, 2019, 05:22 PM

I have a xPDO/PHP-Class or may a logical problem.

I have a master Class "Event" that has a function that will add dates to a date table. Very simplified it looks like that:

class Event extends xPDOSimpleObject {
    public function addDate {
        $date = $this->modx->newObject('eventDate');
        $date->set('title', $title);
        $date->save();
    }
}

This works perfect and the addDate function adds the date to the table. Now i would like to move this function inside the eventDate Class. But this does not work anymore. Simplified it looks like that:

class eventDate extends xPDOSimpleObject {
    public function addDate {
        $this->set('title', $title);
        $this->save();
    }
}

I thought i could just add new dates like this. But this does not work. Is there a good example how to communicate via xPDO with the DB inside the Class/Object itself?

Re: Add rows inside Object itself

quadro — Mar 14, 2019, 04:15 PM

Thank you very much. Both helped me a lot to get a better understanding of xPDO/Objects and Classes. Thanx!

Re: Add rows inside Object itself (Best Answer)

BobRay — Mar 13, 2019, 06:53 PM

You might find this useful.

Re: Add rows inside Object itself (Best Answer)

markh — Mar 13, 2019, 06:48 PM

And now i would like to call a function of the sgfevent.class.php

To do that, first you create an instance of the sgfEvent class. As it's an xPDO(Simple)Object, you'd typically either create a new object, or get an object for that. In your snippet, after you loaded your Signfy service class that calls $this->modx->addPackage, you'd do something like this:

$event = $modx->getObject('sgfEvent', ['id' => 10]);
$event->addEvent('foo bar');

Or, for a new object:

$event = $modx->newObject('sgfEvent');
$event->set('some_field', 'some value');
$event->addEvent('foo bar');

Re: Add rows inside Object itself

quadro — Mar 13, 2019, 05:44 PM

Thanks a lot for your support. I think the problem is, that i don't really understand how to work with multi model classes in MODX.

What i try to do is to separate all model relatet functions into their model class: Event-Functions inside the event model class, Team-Functions inside the team model class, etc. I probably don't load/include them correctly into the snippet - but i can't find any tutorial/docs on it. The doodle example always just handles a single class.

So my snippet looks like that:

$sgf = $modx->getService('signfy','Signfy',$modx->getOption('signfy.core_path',null,$modx->getOption('core_path').'components/signfy/').'model/signfy/',$scriptProperties);
if (!($sgf instanceof Signfy)) return 'Error';

$signfy = new Signfy($modx, array());
return $signfy->test('test');

My signfy.class.php looks like that:

modx =& $modx;
        $basePath = $this->modx->getOption('signfy.core_path',$config,$this->modx->getOption('core_path').'components/signfy/');
        $assetsUrl = $this->modx->getOption('signfy.assets_url',$config,$this->modx->getOption('assets_url').'components/signfy/');
        $this->config = array_merge(array(
            'basePath' => $basePath,
            'corePath' => $basePath,
            'modelPath' => $basePath.'model/',
            'processorsPath' => $basePath.'processors/',
            'templatesPath' => $basePath.'templates/',
            'chunksPath' => $basePath.'elements/chunks/',
            'jsUrl' => $assetsUrl.'js/',
            'cssUrl' => $assetsUrl.'css/',
            'assetsUrl' => $assetsUrl,
            'connectorUrl' => $assetsUrl.'connector.php',
        ),$config);

        $this->modx->addPackage('signfy',$this->config['modelPath']);
    }


    public function test($title) {
        return $title;
    }

}

And now i would like to call a function of the sgfevent.class.php

I think separating all function into their model classes would be the correct pattern. But now i am pretty stuck here. Working in a single Class works good. But i don't get them separated.

Re: Add rows inside Object itself

markh — Mar 12, 2019, 08:53 PM

I think you oversimplified the code you shared, as that's not valid syntax and will cause a fatal error. I'm also finding it a bit hard to understand the intent here.

The code you shared, once de-simplified and made valid again, would work like this:

$eventDate = $modx->newObject('eventDate');
$eventDate->addDate($title); // assuming $title is supposed to be passed in?

If you want to skip the newObject bit, you could use a static method to do something like this:

$eventDate = eventDate::addDate($modx, $title);

for which the addDate code would look something like:

(Note eventDate has to be loaded into memory for static methods to work; xPDO doesn't do that automatically and model classes aren't autoloaded. Personally I've added a list of classes with static methods/constants into the service constructor, calling loadClass for each, to make sure they're always available everywhere.)

public static function addDate(modX $modx, $title) {
   $inst = $modx->newObject('eventDate');
   $inst->set('title', $title);
   $inst->save();
   return $inst;
}

Re: Add rows inside Object itself

BobRay — Mar 12, 2019, 07:30 PM

If $this is an actual, instantiated object before calling the method, it should work. Otherwise, xPDO doesn't have an object to save to the DB. You either need to call newObject() or retrieve the object you want to update from the DB first.