Method Chains PHP OOP

Question

Commonly, in a lot of frameworks, you can find examples of creating a query using the query builder. Often you will see:

$query->select(\'field\');
$query         


        

Answer 1

Basically, you have to make every method in the class return the instance:

x = $x;
    }
    public function __toString(){
        return 'condition is ' . $this->x;
    }
}
class Foo{
    public function select($what){
        echo "I'm selecting $what\n";
        return $this;
    }
    public function from($where){
        echo "From $where\n";
        return $this;
    }
    public function where($condition){
        echo "Where $condition\n";
        return $this;
    }
    public function limit($condition){
        echo "Limited by $condition\n";
        return $this;
    }
    public function order($order){
        echo "Order by $order\n";
        return $this;
    }
}

$object = new Foo;

$object->select('something')
       ->from('table')
       ->where( new Object_Evaluate('x') )
       ->limit(1)
       ->order('x');

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This is often used as pure eye candy but I suppose it has its valid usages as well.