> I just read an interesting article in The Perl Journal (TPJ) about
using
> AUTOLOAD as a layer of abstraction for accessing database columns and
I
> would like to write something similar in PHP. Is this possible?
>
> I have written a number of PHP/MySQL applications, but do not consider
> myself an expert. I cannot find anything on various PHP-related
> websites and was hoping someone with more in depth knowledge would be
> able to make a few suggestions.
Okay, so if I understand it correctly, you'd try to call a method such
as $class->method() where method() doesn't actually exist. You'd want to
catch that error, look for a column named 'method' in a table, and
either set, return, or do both for the value in the column?
If you call an unknown function, it produces a fatal error, so I don't
think that can be trapped by set_error_handler and acted on.
In order to do this, I think you'd have to do something like
$class->method("phone","555-1212");
method() will look for a "phone" function and call it if it exists.
Otherwise, look for a "phone" column and set/retrieve the value...
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