I am replacing my old database layer by a new PDO based version.
However i have run into a problem:
When fetching objects using fetchObject
i can pass arguments for the object constructor.
However i am now porting over a class which has several subclasses, all stored in the same table, and i want to use FETCH_CLASSTYPE
. This means that i have to use the regular fetch()
method to which i cant pass constructor arguments.
Is there another way to do this?
I could rename the constructor to something else and call it manually but i would like a clean solution.
There doesn't seem to be a built-in solution. That part of the API doesn't look that good anyway. You could use a workaround:
$stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) { /* "Factory" */ $obj = new $row['class_name_column']('constructor', 'args'); unset($row['class_name_column']); foreach ($row as $key => $value) { $obj->$key = $value; } var_dump($obj); }
I think it's perfectly clean to call an initializing-method on the returned instance right after the fetch.
It's a PHP bug reported as #62567
You may work around it by passing as a second argument any classname with a constructor