On Jan 15, 2008 2:47 PM, Tim W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is this the best way to create a calculated field in a model object?
> It works perfectly, but having to merge an array doesn't seem ideal,
> and it's not OO at all.
>
> function afterFind($results)
> {
> for ($i=0; $i < count($results); $i++) {
> $lens = $results[$i]['Lens'];
> $description = $lens['wide_zoom'] . '-' .
> $lens['long_zoom'];
> $lens = array_merge($lens, array('description' =>
> $description));
> $results[$i]['Lens'] = $lens;
> }
>
> return $results;
> }
>
You can avoid creating the tmp var and merging by adding a new key to
the array directly:
$results[$i]['Lens']['description'] = $results[$i]['Lens']['wide_zoom']
. '-'
. $results[$i]['Lens']['long_zoom'];
Or concatenate the two fields with SQL as a third column.
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