[Year 12 SofDev] Records in PHP

[Guy Flaherty]

Laurie,

Looking at the figure, and especially the paragraph underneath that explains how the data held in the record will be accessed, I would imagine that a simple associative array is all that is meant by this. Judging by the examples in the PHP online documentation here:   http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php this should be all you need to do in order to represent the record. Then you would need to create a structure to hold your 'records' I suppose, such as another array ;)

I am sure you could do the same thing with a class, but this would seem a bit heavy to me. Especially if your 'records' come from things like csv data.

Guy Flaherty
Xavier College
 
>>> "Laurie Savage" <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> 14/07/10 08:40 AM >>> 


This is my first time teaching SD. We're using PHP and the Fitzpatrick/Keane
text. PHP doesn't have a specific type called a "record" and a single vector
array doesn't seem to match the concept as illustrated (fig 6.5, page 162).
Looking at the example in the text I'm wondering if I could describe it as
an instance of a class?

 

Laurie Savage

Pascoe Vale Girls College 

 



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