[solved] Referencing relationships when model is namepsaced

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[solved] Referencing relationships when model is namepsaced

Dylan Anderson Jul '13

Created Jul '13	Last Reply Jul '13	Replies 1	Views 370	Votes 1

Dylan Anderson 125.8k

Jul '13

Hi all,

I have 2 models, \App\Request and \App\Media. \App\Request has many \App\Media references. If \App\Media wasn't namespaced, I could simply call

<?PHP
$this->nameofAppRequestObject->getMedia('condition string');

But since it is namespaced that would change to:

<?PHP
$this->nameofAppRequestObject->getApp\Media('condition string');

which is obviously messed up.

As the docs suggest is possible, I manually wrote a getMedia() function that calls getRelated('\App\Media'), but that's not quite working either.

My question is: Is manually writing a function like I have done the recommended way of doing this?

1

Phalcon · Answer 1 · 2013-07-18T13:16:42-07:00

You can alias the relationship:

namespace App;

class Request
{
    public function initialize()
    {
        $this->hasMany('id', 'App\Media', 'request_id', array(
            'alias' => 'media'
        ));
    }
}

Then, you can freely use "media" to get the related records:

$media = $this->nameofAppRequestObject->getMedia('condition string');
$media = $this->nameofAppRequestObject->media;

Dylan Anderson · Answer 2 · 2013-07-18T14:04:43-07:00

Dylan Anderson
125.8k

Jul '13

Ah, I see. Thanks.