Marcus Povey <marcus@dushka.co.uk>

* Metadata and relationships can now be accessed as arrays

git-svn-id: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@536 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

1 files changed, 74 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/relationships.php b/engine/lib/relationships.php
index 592e3ecea..c1d2af71f 100644
--- a/engine/lib/relationships.php
+++ b/engine/lib/relationships.php
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@
 	 * @package Elgg
 	 * @subpackage Core
 	 */
-	class ElggRelationship implements Importable, Exportable
+	class ElggRelationship implements 
+		Importable, 
+		Exportable,
+		Iterator,	// Override foreach behaviour
+		ArrayAccess // Override for array access
 	{
 		/**
 		 * This contains the site's main properties (id, etc)
@@ -103,7 +107,8 @@
 			return delete_relationship($this->id); 
 		}
 	
-	
+		// EXPORTABLE INTERFACE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+		
 		/**
 		 * Export this relationship
 		 *
@@ -122,6 +127,8 @@
 			);
 		}
 		
+		// IMPORTABLE INTERFACE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+		
 		/**
 		 * Import a relationship
 		 *
@@ -163,6 +170,71 @@
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		
+		// ITERATOR INTERFACE //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+		/*
+		 * This lets an entity's attributes be displayed using foreach as a normal array.
+		 * Example: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/php5-standard-library
+		 */
+		
+		private $valid = FALSE; 
+		
+   		function rewind() 
+   		{ 
+   			$this->valid = (FALSE !== reset($this->attributes));  
+   		}
+   
+   		function current() 
+   		{ 
+   			return current($this->attributes); 
+   		}
+		
+   		function key() 
+   		{ 
+   			return key($this->attributes); 
+   		}
+		
+   		function next() 
+   		{
+   			$this->valid = (FALSE !== next($this->attributes));  
+   		}
+   		
+   		function valid() 
+   		{ 
+   			return $this->valid;  
+   		}
+	
+   		// ARRAY ACCESS INTERFACE //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+		/*
+		 * This lets an entity's attributes be accessed like an associative array.
+		 * Example: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/php5-standard-library
+		 */
+
+		function offsetSet($key, $value)
+		{
+   			if ( array_key_exists($key, $this->attributes) ) {
+     			$this->attributes[$key] = $value;
+   			}
+ 		} 
+ 		
+ 		function offsetGet($key) 
+ 		{
+   			if ( array_key_exists($key, $this->attributes) ) {
+     			return $this->attributes[$key];
+   			}
+ 		} 
+ 		
+ 		function offsetUnset($key) 
+ 		{
+   			if ( array_key_exists($key, $this->attributes) ) {
+     			$this->attributes[$key] = ""; // Full unsetting is dangerious for our objects
+   			}
+ 		} 
+ 		
+ 		function offsetExists($offset) 
+ 		{
+   			return array_key_exists($offset, $this->attributes);
+ 		} 
 	}