Not sure the best way of phrasing this so bear with me.
Within Codeigniter I can return a record set of my object no problem but this is returned as a stdClass object not as an "model" object (for example a Page Object) which I can then use to make use of other methods within that model.
Am I missing a trick here? Or is this the standard functionality within CI?
Yes, basically in order for this to work you need to declare your Model objects properties class-wide, and refer to $this
being the current model object.
class Blogmodel extends CI_Model {
var $title = '';
var $content = ''; // Declare Class wide Model properties
var $date = '';
function __construct()
{
// Call the Model constructor
parent::__construct();
}
function get_entry()
{
$query = $this->db->query('query to get single object');
$db_row = $query->row(); //Get single record
$this->title = $db_row->title;
$this->content = $db_row->content; //Populate current instance of the Model
$this->date = $db_row->date;
return $this; //Return the Model instance
}
}
I believe get_entry()
will return an object type Blogmodel
.