Storing Objects in an array

[Neyland]

This has been giving me the devil of a time. I want to store a base object in a collection object's variable which is an array.

IE:

class tire{
var tid;
var tsize;
}

class tires{
var tirecollection;

function tires{
$ctire = array();
//Make a dbcall
//For each tire returned create a new tire object and add it to the array
//Finally assign the array to the $this->tirecollection var.
}

$foo = new tires;
//This does not return an object:
$bar = $foo->tirecollection[0];

If I serialize the object before placing it into the tirecollection it works fine. However, if I return a recordset of over 7,000 rows I top the 8m memory when the actual data I'm storing in each object is very small.

[Shrike]

I can't see anything wrong with what you are doing. Perhaps you can add the entire code for class tires, as it seems that is where the problem would be.

On a sidenote, a 7000 row recordset is clearly going to take alot of memory to read. Perhaps you need to rethink how that data is accessed.

[Neyland]

You know, in writing the example I found that the code does work it was just an ongoing memory error that I had to fetch out of the server logs.

Once I upped the ram I could fetch,parse, iterate all the objects in 10 secs (4 year old single proc server) for a Pear output to an Excel spreadsheet. But when I actual start writing the data, the whole procedure ends up running 4 mins. We're talking a total of 5,000 summary records and some 10,000 detail records.

This means it's taking almost the entire time with the Pear parser. Do you know of a faster means?