Author Topic: Tranferring data between modules (Read 7783 times)

onekman · « **on:** April 23, 2008, 05:04:30 pm »

Since I'm not the world biggest PHP genious, I need help with following :

I got a own developed class, let's call it ClassA. From this class I set a Flag(true/false), and I need this value to be accessable from ClassB.

How is it doable in a propper way ?

regards
1k

Alreadythere · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2008, 06:10:49 pm »

You have to register a link in the Bot class, either directly with a line like below in 0.4

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$classvar = new ClassA(&$bot);
$bot -> linktoa = &$classvar;

class ClassA {}

Then you can simple do $this -> bot -> linktoa -> variablename to access the field.

In SVN we got a dedicated function to register those links.

Glarawyn · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2008, 12:25:25 am »

You could also use the settings interface if that makes sense for you.

See the BeBot Developer's Handbook

onekman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2008, 04:49:54 pm »

Alreadythere : You wrote I had to register a link in the Bot class. When you says Botclass you mean the class I made or in the Bot main module ?

Temar · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2008, 05:03:47 pm »

put

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$bot -> linktoa = &$classvar;

renameing linktoa to wateva u want
and classvar to the class name

and put this in your module before the class so its outside the class but after the line

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$classvar = new ClassA(&$bot);

then u can call function in the class from other classes useing $this -> bot -> linktoa

Blueeagle · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2008, 06:52:07 pm »

It is my opinion that values that more than one module need access to should have this stored in a core module and export the value via the regular api $this->bot->core('module')

The prefered method is to use settings or preferences. If the flag is of a global nature it should use settings and if it's a flag that's set on a per user basis it should use a preference.

You can create your own database table to hold the value ofcourse, but the framework for settings and preferences are in place so we think they should be used.