Hi All

This may be simple but im just not sure

I have a dataobject extension that has a function with a query in it, i want to access that function from a different dataobject extension.
Can this be done? and how?

Thanks

Create it as a static function:

Class MyDataObject extends DataObject {

    public static function foo() {
        // Do some querying
    }

}

You can then call it by doing:

MyDataObject::foo()

Hi Kinglozzer

Thanks for your reply, when i made the function public static the wheels came off a bit and nothing worked.

although this gives me something to go on unfortunatly i have little time to explore this right now so i will plug away as i get time and try a few things and see what i get working

thanks again

voodoochile

If it's static you need to refer to the extension classname (e.g MyDataExtension::foo()). If your method is instance based you need to go $this->owner->foo().

Thanks Willr

I managed to work that bit out as in MyDataExtension::foo() and kind of got it working but not well, in the page view it returns a value for each object but dosn't seem to be running the query.

at this point i think i need to play around a little with this to get the result i am looking for.