From f6e1eeac2df7c1e8ffc02024bbc7a339dacc2b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Huntington Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:48:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] casing --- API2.md | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/API2.md b/API2.md index 68d29ba..040e5b8 100644 --- a/API2.md +++ b/API2.md @@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ if($_REQUEST['action'] === 'index'){ } else if ($_REQUEST['action'] === 'post'){ $request_body = file_get_contents('php://input'); $body_object = json_decode($request_body); - $newPerson = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); //create a new Person from $body_object + $new_person = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); //create a new Person from $body_object } ``` -Finally, we can pass `$newPerson` off to `People::create()`: +Finally, we can pass `$new_person` off to `People::create()`: ```php if($_REQUEST['action'] === 'index'){ @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ if($_REQUEST['action'] === 'index'){ } else if ($_REQUEST['action'] === 'post'){ $request_body = file_get_contents('php://input'); $body_object = json_decode($request_body); - $newPerson = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); - People::create($newPerson); //pass $newPerson off to People, so it can add the data to the db + $new_person = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); + People::create($new_person); //pass $new_person off to People, so it can add the data to the db echo '{"worked":true}'; //return a success message } ``` @@ -151,11 +151,11 @@ if($_REQUEST['action'] === 'index'){ } else if ($_REQUEST['action'] === 'post'){ $request_body = file_get_contents('php://input'); $body_object = json_decode($request_body); - $newPerson = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); - $allPeople = People::create($newPerson); //store the return value of People::create into a var + $new_person = new Person(null, $body_object->name, $body_object->age); + $all_people = People::create($new_person); //store the return value of People::create into a var //send the return value of People::create (all people in the db) back to the user - echo json_encode($allPeople); + echo json_encode($all_people); } ``` @@ -168,9 +168,9 @@ Now when you create a new person in Postman, you should get back all the People We're going to do the same as with `People::create()`, but with some minor changes. Add the following to the `People` model in `models/person.php`: ```php -static function update($updatedPerson){ +static function update($updated_person){ $query = "UPDATE people SET name = $1, age = $2 WHERE id = $3"; - $query_params = array($updatedPerson->name, $updatedPerson->age, $updatedPerson->id); + $query_params = array($updated_person->name, $updated_person->age, $updated_person->id); $result = pg_query_params($query, $query_params); return self::all(); @@ -198,16 +198,16 @@ Now let's update `controllers/people.php` to handle these requests. Add the fol } else if ($_REQUEST['action'] === 'update'){ $request_body = file_get_contents('php://input'); $body_object = json_decode($request_body); - $updatedPerson = new Person($_REQUEST['id'], $body_object->name, $body_object->age); - $allPeople = People::update($updatedPerson); + $updated_person = new Person($_REQUEST['id'], $body_object->name, $body_object->age); + $all_people = People::update($updated_person); - echo json_encode($allPeople); + echo json_encode($all_people); } ``` This is very similar to the create action. The only real difference is that we use `$_REQUEST['id']` to fetch the id of the person to be updated from the URL of the route. Everything else for the new `Person` object comes from the request body as normal. -Note that we're not actually creating a new `Person` object in the database, even though we have `$updatedPerson = new Person($_REQUEST['id'], $body_object->name, $body_object->age);`. Here, `$updatedPerson` is a new PHP object that resides in the computer's temporary memory, not in the DB. We're temporarily creating this PHP object so that we can pass it to `People::update()`, which will then use the properties of that PHP object to update an already pre-existing row in Postgres. Once we exit from the `else if` statement, `$updatedPerson` is destroyed in memory, since it is no longer needed. +Note that we're not actually creating a new `Person` object in the database, even though we have `$updated_person = new Person($_REQUEST['id'], $body_object->name, $body_object->age);`. Here, `$updated_person` is a new PHP object that resides in the computer's temporary memory, not in the DB. We're temporarily creating this PHP object so that we can pass it to `People::update()`, which will then use the properties of that PHP object to update an already pre-existing row in Postgres. Once we exit from the `else if` statement, `$updated_person` is destroyed in memory, since it is no longer needed. ## Delete @@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ Now let's update `controllers/people.php` to handle these requests. Add the fol ```php } else if ($_REQUEST['action'] === 'delete'){ - $allPeople = People::delete($_REQUEST['id']); - echo json_encode($allPeople); + $all_people = People::delete($_REQUEST['id']); + echo json_encode($all_people); } ```