On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:32:39PM +0100, Henry Blackman wrote:
> Do I create a new document and pass the primary key as it's a variable in
> the
>
> $document = new Document(number);
>
> and have the constructor retrieve the appropriate data from MySQL and fill
> the attribute variables.
>
> Or do I do something like:
>
> $document = new Document;
> $document ->retrieve(number);
>
> Which is the best and most "valid" way of doing things.
You could do both, and use whatever you find more appropriate at that
moment:
class Document
{
function Document($id='')
{
if($id)
{
$this->retrieve($id);
}
}
function retrieve($id)
{
//do something
}
}
BTW I get the feeling that you want retrieve() to output directly to the
browser (echo/print...), IMHO you shouldn't do that at all but let
retrieve() return a string/array/whatever. But that's up to you :)
--
Daniel Tryba
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