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Custom getters
Besides, properties, nested beans and nested lists a bean may also contain custom getters. If you want to map a relation which is not supported by RedBeanPHP you can use this technique.
For instance, consider the retrieval of historical data. We have a $person bean and our task is to get all the related $events sorted by date. What RedBeanPHP can do is retrieve all events like this
$person->ownEvents
But that might not be the correct order! In this case we better write our own getter:
class Model_Person extends RedBean_SimpleModel {
public function getEvents() {
return R::find('event',' person_id = ? order by `date` asc',array($this->id));
}
}
To use this custom getter:
$person = R::load('person',$certainID);
$eventBeans = $person->getEvents();
Notice that RedBeanPHP knows that Model_Person belongs to bean $person. This is called FUSE because the bean and the model are fused. Read more about models and fuse.
The flexibility of FUSE allows RedBeanPHP to be used as a stand-alone ORM solution, the BeanCan Server
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