Ch 7. Problems with Updating using GenericObject
Hi All
Am looking to use the GenericObject class within a web-application but have a problem with how to use it to update database fields.
Assuming I can pre-populate a user-form from the data loaded by instantiating an object of the class, how can I then use the SetField method dynamically? ie. to pass any changed values back to the $database_fields member variable ready to be saved to the database.
I'm not fully clear on the workings of classes generally but it seems to me that using a form will action to a new page & hence a completely new object, as will using php_self to recall the same page.
In either case it seems strange having an object that allows an update only if the update value is hard-coded into the script.
Anyone have any thoughts (& preferably a solution :-) on this subject?
Thanks
Mark
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