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Creating a Collection

5:55 with Alena Holligan

Organization helps us to use things more effectively. The first step in organization is grouping things. A collection object can hold a group of objects and allow us to perform actions on these objects. We're going to create a simple collection class with the specific methods we want to use.

More Advanced Collections

The SplObjectStorage class

Symfony Collections

Laravel Collections

Eloquent Collections

Challenges

Here are some suggestions for more control of the recipes in the collection:

  • removeRecipe
  • removeRecipeById
  • clearRecipes
  • addRecipes

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Congratulations on creating and using your first class. 0:05
    Now that we have all these recipes what do we do with them? 0:08
    Organization helps us use things more effectively. 0:12
    And the first step for organization is grouping things. 0:16
    So how would we group recipes? 0:19
    In a cookbook of course. 0:22
    I'm a bit of a cookbookaholic. 0:24
    I drastically cut my collection when we moved. 0:26
    And I try to avoid that section of the bookstore now. 0:29
    But what does that mean for our program? 0:31
    We could simply group all our objects in an array. 0:34
    We've done this type of thing before and 0:38
    an array, can be extremely powerful in its own right. 0:41
    Especially when used with PHP's built in array functions. 0:45
    But we want our cookbook, to be more than just a group of objects. 0:50
    We want this group to be able to perform some actions 0:54
    such as filter by property or give us a shopping list. 0:58
    Can we create an object of objects? 1:03
    Yes we can. 1:06
    A collection object can hold a group of objects, typically stored in array. 1:07
    A collection object also allows us to perform actions on the stored objects. 1:13
    Most data persistence frameworks have their own implementation of 1:19
    the collection object. 1:23
    And, there are some more advanced options that I'll link to in the teachers notes. 1:25
    For this project, we're going to create 1:30
    a simple collection class with the specific actions that we want to use. 1:32
    To start with, we're going to create a new class. 1:36
    So we need to create a new file in our classes folder. 1:41
    We'll name this recipecollection.php. 1:46
    We open our php tag, and then we create a new class called RecipeCollection. 1:53
    Again, we're using studly caps. 2:03
    We're going to use two properties, a title. 2:06
    To name our collection and a recipes array to store our recipes. 2:11
    Like we did with the recipe class, we'll make these properties private and 2:19
    we'll add getters and setters. 2:23
    We can use the getter and setter for the title directly from our recipe class. 2:26
    We can also grab the constructor as well. 2:34
    This will allow us to give it a title at the same time as we instantiate 2:45
    our object. 2:48
    Next we need to be able to add a recipe. 2:49
    Let's create a new method. 2:52
    We'll call this add recipe. 2:57
    We're going to accept a recipe And add it to our array 2:59
    Finally, we need to add public function getRecipes. 3:14
    And then we return this recipes. 3:22
    Let's go back into our cookbook and create a cookbook object. 3:30
    First we need to include our new class file. 3:35
    Next, we can instantiate a cookbook object. 3:48
    We'll use new RecipeCollection and 3:55
    then we'll pass in a title, Treehouse Recipes. 3:59
    Now we can add the recipes to our cookbook collection using the add recipe method. 4:08
    If we go into our recipes file, we can grab all of our recipes. 4:19
    Now let's try a var_dump on our cookbook object. 5:01
    Let's hide this line. 5:12
    Now let's run our script. 5:23
    Class. 5:33
    Not new. 5:34
    Wow that's a lot of information. 5:44
    But that means we have a basic group for the collection object. 5:45
    But it's not really doing any more than just getting and setting an array. 5:49
    So let's start enhancing our collection. 5:53

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