XF 2.0 Can I add additional indexes to an Entity outside of the table columns?

[Jaxel]

I have my entity, it's values match the columns in my database.

I would like to add an additional index to my entity in code. This is not a calculated value, so its not something that could be returned by a getter. Its just a value I manually set in my code; to be called upon later.

How would I do this in the entity system?

 

[DragonByte Tech]

Same way you would any other PHP object.

You have to create setter and getter methods, e.g.

protected $foo = null;

public function setFoo($foo)
{
   $this->foo = $foo;
}

public function getFoo($foo)
{
   return $this->foo;
}

As accessing properties directly via $entity->foo; would only work if you added 'foo' => true to the list of getters, which you don't want to do, for some reason, even though it would work fine.

EDIT: I should however point out that $entity->foo = $foo; is unlikely to work, as setting properties is only meant to write to the structure, not custom methods. So you always have to use your setter.


Fillip

 

[Jaxel]

Doesn't work for me. Getting the error:

Column 'foo' is unknown

 

[DragonByte Tech]

Dunno what to tell you then, if you look at \XF\Entity\Template you'll see it uses a property that isn't related to the DB. Inspect that file and see if there's anything they do different to you when setting that variable.


Fillip

 

[Jaxel]

I don't see them setting that variable from anywhere outside of the entity.

 

[Robust]

Doesn't work for me. Getting the error:

What's the code you're using (after implementing DragonByte's suggestion) and how are you calling this function?