I'm trying to write some classes which pull my data out of my database and create objects based on that data. I'm working with CodeIgniter.
The problem is that if an id
is supplied to the __construct
method but no row in the database table has that id
, an object is returned but with all the properties set to NULL
.
Is there a way that I can check this and return NULL
instead of an object if there is no corresponding row?
class JS_Model extends CI_Model
{
protected $database_table_name;
protected $database_keys;
...
public function __construct($id = NULL){
if($id){
$this->getFromDatabase($id);
}
}
...
function getFromDatabase($id){
foreach($this->database_keys as $key){
$this->db->select($key);
}
$this->db->from($this->database_table_name);
$this->db->where('id', $id);
$this->db->limit(1);
$q = $this->db->get();
if ($q->num_rows() > 0){
foreach($q->result() as $property){
foreach($property as $key => $value){
$this->$key = $value;
}
}
} else {
// NEED TO SET THE OBJECT TO NULL FOR THIS CASE
}
}
...
}
Any help would be appreciated.