Hall of Famer Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Well lets say I have a class called Private_Item with a property like $owner. The class itself and constructor will look like the way below: (Note the Private_Item class extends from a parent class called Item, this is not to be worried here) class Private_Item extends Item{ private $iid; // The itemname and category properties already exist for parent class private $owner; private $quantity; private $status = "Available"; public function __construct($name, $owner, $quantity){ parent::__construct($name); $this->owner = new User($owner); $this->quantity = $quantity; } } Whenever I define a variable like $item = new Private_Item($itemname, $itemowner, $quantity), the $itemowner is used as reference to instantiate a User object, and then passed to the property $this->owner. In this way, I have actually instantiated two objects at once. One for the item, the other for the user who owns this item. I have a question about using PDO's fetch class method though. I'd like to use it to retrieve database info and instantiate a Private_Item object immediately after fetching it from MySQL database. The code looks like below: $item = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, "Private_Item"); The real question is, can the user object still be instantiated in the meantime? I am not quite sure about this, and I may end up having only one $item object but its property $item->owner is not. For those of you familiar with advanced PDO stuff, please lemme know if I can instantiate a subsequent object with the method fetch(PDO::FETCH_CLASS). Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259441-regarding-pdos-fetchpdofetch_class-method/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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