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PHP

Posted by Frederick Rogers
Frederick Rogers
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Implementing an interface - $repo->find('posts', 1) returns NULL

Hi I am having some trouble with this portions of the video lesson on "Implementing an interface". at the 07:32 mark we are asked to var_dump() the return value of the find() method on the jsonRepository (initiliased as $repo) object. How ever although the previous var_dump() of the method all() works just fine. The find() method simply returns NULL. Not sure why this is.

Here is my php code for the jsonrepository class:

class jsonRepository implements RepositoryInterface
{

  protected $file;

  public function __construct( $file ) 
  {
       $this->file = $file;
  }

  public function all( $entity ) 
  {
    $data = json_decode( file_get_contents( $this->file ) );

    return $data->$entity;    
  }

  public function find( $entity, $value, $field = 'id' ) 
  {
      foreach( $this->all( $entity) as $key => $data ) {
        if ( $data->$field === $value ) {
          return array( $data );
        } 
      }
  }

}