Upgrading to PHP 5

The addressBook Class

Now that you have a Person, it’s time to turn to the address book. Just like a physical address book, an addressBook object holds a collection of information about people.

The addressBook class gives you two actions: you can either add a new record or search existing records. That’s it. Updating and deleting records is left for Version 2.0. However, as always, you want to design the class so that it’s easy to add these methods.

Like Person, addressBook has a toDOM( ) method, which exports an entire collection of people to XML as a group.

Constructor

Besides instantiating the object, addressBook’s constructor connects to the database, as shown in Example 10-7.

Example 10-7. addressBook::_ _construct( )

class addressBook implements IteratorAggregate {

    protected $data;
    protected $db;

    public function _ _construct( ) {
        $this->data = array( );
        $this->db = new SQLiteDatabase('addressBook.db');
    }

The constructor opens the SQLite database addressBook.db that was created earlier in Section 10.1. The result handle is stored in the $db property.

Adding a Person to an addressBook

An empty address book isn’t very interesting, so Example 10-8 implements the addPerson( ) method. This method takes a Person object, converts it into an SQL query, and inserts it into the database.

Example 10-8. addressBook::addPerson( )

 public function addPerson(Person $person) { $data = array( ); foreach ($person as $fields => $value) { $data[$fields] = "'" . sqlite_escape_string($value) . "'"; } ...