> From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2006-01-27 13:41:21 CET > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] php5 vs php4: db-handling > > Quoting Sigurd Nes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It seems like php5 differ from php4 when one needs a second db-object > > inside a db->next_record()-loop. > > > > In php4 one can do like this: > > > > $this->db = $GLOBALS['phpgw']->db; > > > > $this->db2 = $this->db; > > > > > > While for php5 one has to alter to: > > > > $this->db = $GLOBALS['phpgw']->db; > > $this->db2 = CreateObject('phpgwapi.db'); > > $this->db2->Host = $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['db_host']; > > $this->db2->Type = $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['db_type']; > > $this->db2->Database = $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['db_name']; > > $this->db2->User = $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['db_user']; > > $this->db2->Password = $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['db_pass']; > > > > The db initialization could be moved to a function to enable this: > > $this->db2 = $GLOBALS['phpgw']->new_db; > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > <excerpt cite="http://www.zend.com/php5/andi-book-excerpt.php";> > In PHP 5, the infrastructure of the object model was rewritten to work > with object handles. Unless you explicitly clone an object by using the > clone keyword you will never create behind the scene duplicates of > your objects. In PHP 5, there is neither a need to pass objects by > reference nor assigning them by reference. </excerpt> > > HTH, > Earnie Boyd > Could you make an example of the db-class, and relate it to how it is used trough out phpgroupware? I have now in the app 'property' switched to initialize the db-classes with a function new_db() - and it works fine with both php4 and php5. (But of course - ther could be smarter ways...)
Regards Sigurd
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