Using methods on objects - Printable Version

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Using methods on objects - El Forum - 09-05-2009

[eluser]bapobap[/eluser]
Would someone kindly explain how the following works as I'm not sure what is going on code wise.

So for this:

Code:
$user = $this->db->limit(1)->get('users');

It returns:

Code:
CI_DB_mysql_result Object

(

    [conn_id] => Resource id #32

    [result_id] => Resource id #54

    [result_array] => Array

        (

        )

    [result_object] => Array

        (

        )

    [current_row] => 0

    [num_rows] => 1

    [row_data] => 

)

from there you can do things like:

Code:
$user->row(); or $user->result();

What is actually happening here? I'm more used to having a user model where I get the user object, then pass it back into methods, so:

Code:
$user = $this->user_model->user('username');

$email = $this->user_model->email($user);

whereas something like:

Code:
$user = $this->user_model->user('username');

$email = $user->email();

is much handier.

Though I may be misunderstanding how all this is working.