Nanne Huiges
Wed Feb 15 03:08:36 -0500 2012
Also crossposted this to stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/q/9280455/546999 ). While I was at it, created a phpactiverecord tag as well :)
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Also crossposted this to stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/q/9280455/546999 ). While I was at it, created a phpactiverecord tag as well :)
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Subject: Creating new object trough Association
In a model (lets say 'person') I have an association (lets call it "company").
When a person does not have a company, but I want to link it to one, I might need to create the company-object. Now I want to do this with the model the association knows.
To clarify: I could of course do this:
But I've already defined what class the company has in the association. So above is not desirable because now I use the classname in two places.
I'm looking for something like this, but I don't think below is legal:
Now I have defined the type of $company in only one place (the association), and if it changes there is only one place it has to be changed.
(Background: in my case I have two different "persons" that are children of an abstract parent-class. I want the abstact parent to point to the childrens associated company, so therefore I need to use the associations class, not a hardcoded class)