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Data Model Questions /

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Data Model getters


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stephenjcorwin

Community Member, 1 Post

15 March 2014 at 5:22am

I'm looking to loop through a set of data objects, but I need to filter out those that the current time has not passed the 'publish date" field I created. Normally, I would do this when I run my DataObject::Get('ObjectName') method, and just use the '->Filter()' method to do so. But I was wondering if I can set it within the DataModel itself. Similar to how if you had a field "Title", you could implement a method:

static $db = array (
'Title' => 'Varchar(255)'
)

public function getTitle() {
//perform modifications
return $this->Title;
}

So within the same data model, it will only return itself, if it passes validation. Rather than just filtering every time I call it through a loop.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

15 March 2014 at 4:11pm

You can implement a getTitle but no, filter() won't pick this up for DataList's as it's SQL generated. It's useful for performing modifications between the database / display. Note to get the original value use something like

public function getTitle() {
$title = $this->dbObject('Title')->Value();

//

return $title;
}