在哪里找到属性的可接受值[PHP优先但可以考虑用于所有语言]

Question

I have an entity, let's say "customer" and this entity has 3 possible status: active, inactive and deleted.

This 3 status handles 3 labels: Active, Inactive and Deleted and they are used in the form, in the detail and maybe in a list so I we have a common array:

array(
   'active' => 'Active',
   'inactive' => 'Inactive',
   'deleted' => 'Deleted
);

What I normally do is to handle this in a method called getAcceptedStatus that returns this values but then I figured out that I had to make something like this:

$acceptedStatus = $customer->getAcceptedStatus();
echo $acceptedStatus[$customer->getStatus()];

And I do not find it good enough. How do you (would you) handle it? Should I create a method that return directly the label?

Answer 1

Why not make the status an entity in its own right?

This way you can assign the customers status property an object instance rather then messing around with strings.

abstract class Status 
{
  protected $id;

  protected $name;

  public function getId();

  public function setId($id);

  public function getName();

  public function setName($name);

}

class CustomerStatus extends Status
{
 protected $label;


 public function getLabel()
 {
   return $this->label;
 }

 public function setLabel($label);

}      

Then type hint in the customer class:

class Customer {
  // ...
  public function getStatus() {
    return $this->status;
  }

  public function setStatus(CustomerStatus $status) {
   $this->status = $status;
  }

  // ...
}