Problem with getting objects safely in and out of Arrays

[macKid]

Hi,

I'm been trying to store a set of objects in an array so i can return the array function call and ideally retrieve the objects from the array later on.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $queryResponse ) ) {
	//create the annoymous objecct
	$anObject = new WebSiteLink() ;
	//load it up with values -- these are just some, so you can see...
	$anObject->setName ( $name ) ;
	$linkArray[$counter] = $anObject ;
	$counter++ ; }

that is what i'm doing to load up the array. I've also tried using :

$linkArray[$counter] = &$anObject ;

but that doesn't work either. It compiles.. just doesn't do anything.
I'm not sure if the problem is up there, or down here... where i'm trying to get stuff out of the array. this code is right after the above code:

for ( $counter = 0 ; $counter < count( $linkArray ) ; $counter++ ) {
		$anObject = $linkArray[$counter] ;
		echo $anObject->getName() ;	
}

[Moonglobe]

dont u want this line:

 $anObject->setName ( $name ) ;

to be like this:

 $anObject->setName ( $row['name'] ) ;// using the value pulled from the database

?

i think the problen is that your code wasnt echoing anything because $name was never set..........

hth
moon 🙂

[macKid]

Sorry, i tried to simplify the code, and put an error in.

this is the actual code in the function

function selectLinks( $value ) { //value is the id for the category

//set up the query
$query = "SELECT `links` .`primaryKey` ,`links` .`title` ,`links` .`comment` ,`urls` .`primaryKey` ,`urls` .`url` 
			FROM links ,urls WHERE ((`links` .`urlFK` =`urls` .`primarykey` )AND (`links` .`categoryFK` = $value))";

//send the query
$queryResponse = mysql_query ($query) or die ("Invalid query: " . mysql_error());

//loop through the query results and assign them to a numbered anonymous object in an array
$counter = 0 ;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $queryResponse ) ) {
	//create the annoymous objecct
	$anObject = new WebSiteLink() ;
	//load it up with values
	$anObject->setURL( $queryResponse['url'] ) ;
	$anObject->setName ( $queryResponse['title'] ) ;
	$anObject->setUrlID ( $queryResponse['urlFK'] ) ;
	$anObject->setComment ( $queryResponse['comment'] ) ;
	$anObject->setCategoryID ( $value ) ;
	$anObject->setPrimaryKey ( $queryResponse['primaryKey'] ) ;
	$linkArray[$counter] = &$anObject ;
	$counter++ ;
}
for ( $counter = 0 ; $counter < count( $linkArray ) ; $counter++ ) {
		$anObject = $linkArray[$counter] ;
		echo $anObject->getName() ;	
}

//echo "link array = " ;
//echo count($linkArray) ;
return $linkArray ;
}

[Moonglobe]

the $queryResponse is not an array, its a resource. replace all those with $row's and things should work.

hth
moon 🙂

[macKid]

Thanks eh!.. I've spent two days (well about 5 hours over two days) debugging that code.

Thanks for the help!!