Store objects in array elements

[eluser]LifeSteala[/eluser]
Usually, in your controller you have an array, say $data[] which is parsed to the view, like so:

Code:

$this->load->view('View', $data);

The array would store strings like:

Code:

$data['a'] = "hello";
$data['b'] = "goodbye";
$data['c'] = "cya";

How can you create objects and store it in a,b and c?? So, $data['a'] will have object a, b will have object b, c->object c.. any idea's?

[eluser]obiron2[/eluser]
There is no reason why the array elements cannot be objects or arrays them selves. if you had an object $hello and passed that as $data['a'] = $hello;

you could call its properties in the view using

$a->propertyofhello

obiron

[eluser]LifeSteala[/eluser]
Sorry, could you please explain that a little more?? OO Isn't my strongest subject .

Appreciate your reply.

[eluser]obiron2[/eluser]
OK, real code..

from the controller

Code:

function get_race_results()
  {
    $this->load->model('F1_playerteams_model');
    $this->load->model('F1_players_model');
    $this->load->model('F1_teams_model');
    $this->load->model('F1_races_model');
    $this->Teams = $this->F1_playerteams_model->get_allplayerteams();
    $this->Races = $this->F1_races_model->get_allraces();
    foreach ($this->Teams as $Team)
     {
        $ADR = $this->build_team_profile($Team->ID);
        $Team->Driver1->ID = $ADR->Driver1->ID;
        $Team->Driver1->Name = $ADR->Driver1->Name;
        $Team->Driver2->ID = $ADR->Driver2->ID;
        $Team->Driver2->Name = $ADR->Driver2->Name;
        $Team->Car->ID = $ADR->Car->ID;
        $Team->Car->Name    =  $this->F1_teams_model->get_teamname($Team->Car->ID);
        $Team->Engine->ID = $ADR->Engine->ID;
        $Team->Engine->Name = $this->F1_engines_model->get_enginename($Team->Engine->ID);
        $Team->SeasonPoints =  0;
        foreach ($this->Races as $Race)
          {
            $Team->Race->ID = $Race->ID;
            $Team->Race->Points = $this->get_team_race_points($Team->ID,$Race->ID);
            $Team->SeasonPoints = $Team->SeasonPoints + $Team->Race->Points;
          }
        }
   $data['title'] = "FrothPoker Fantasy F1 Results";
   $data['Teams'] = $this->Teams;
   $this->load->view('f1results_view',$data);
}[code]

in the view

[code]foreach($Teams as $Team)
  {

   print "<TR class=\"line$x\"><TD><A HREF=\"".site_url()."/test/player_team_results/".$Team->ID."\">$Team->Name</A></TD><TD>";
   print $Team->Player."</TD><TD>";
   print $Team->Profile->Driver1->Name."</TD><TD>";
   print $Team->Profile->Driver2->Name."</TD><TD>";
   print $Team->Profile->Car->Name."</TD><TD>";
   print $Team->Profile->Engine->Name."</TD><TD>";
   print $Team->SeasonPoints."</TD></TR>";
   $x = 1- $x;
  }

explanation:

$this->Teams starts out as just a list of the team IDs. This is a CI stdClass object that is an array of objects, each object in the array only contains one property - the team ID
I then create properties and assign values to each object in the array by getting the relevant data from the model in the foreach loop.
I then pass $this->Teams to the view as ['Teams'] and pick it up in the model as $Teams

$Teams is an array of objects. each object then has properties, some of which (e.g. Profile) are objects in themselves which then have their own properties.

NOTE: the assignement of new properties to stdClass objects only seems to work in PHP5, but this is a limitation of PHP, not of CI.

2nd NOTE: These assignments have been done in the controller when in reality they should be done in the model but I was proving a concept. One nice thing about CI is that you do not have to follow MVC if you don't want to. The production version of this will have the components properly separated.