Posted by Peter Fox on 02/12/06 11:55

Following on from Gav's message. . .
>If you had a class user with variables id, name, password. How would you
>save this object or its variable date to a MySQL database? And then if
>you had a dbase populated with id, name, password and you wanted to show
>a list of all of these how would you iterate through this and re
>populate the object variables?
>
>Are there any tutorials that you can recommend on this subject?
>
>
>

1 - Serialize into a blob AND use some key fields as required is one
way. But users tend not to have really complex data footprints so write
a method for your user class SaveMe() which does the dirty deed field by
field.

2 - Or download this very thing from my web site
http://www.eminent.demon.co.uk/phplibrary.htm
[with added access permissions goodness]

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