Updates for 1.0 release

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.21 $ -->
<!-- $Revision: 1.22 $ -->
<!-- Purpose: database.abstract -->
<!-- Membership: pecl -->
<!-- State: experimental -->
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<partintro>
<section id="sdo.intro">
&reftitle.intro;
<para>
<!-- This warns that the extension is experimental -->
&warn.experimental;
</para>
&reftitle.intro;
<para>
Service Data Objects (SDOs) enable PHP applications to work with
data from different sources (like a database query, an XML file,
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instance that represents some data in the data source. You can then
set and get values in the SDO instance using the standard SDO
interface. Finally, you use a DAS to write the modified data back
to a data source (typically the same one).
to a data source, typically the same one.
</para>
<para>
See the
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Access Services Interface</link> for more details).
</para>
<para>
This extension is derived from concepts taken from the
<ulink url='&url.ibm.sdo;'>
Service Data Objects specification
</ulink>
This extension is derived from concepts taken from the
<ulink url="&url.ibm.sdo;">Service Data Objects specification</ulink>.
It includes a version of the
<ulink url="&url.apache.tuscany;">Apache Tuscany</ulink> SDO 2.0 for C++ project.
</para>
<section id="sdo.intro.structure">
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objects. For example, a Company data object might consist of a number
of Department data objects and therefore the Company would have
a containment relationship to the Departments.
Deleting a data object which has a containment relationship to another
data object will also delete the contained data object. For example,
deleting the Company data object will also delete the Departments.
</para>
<para>
An SDO may also have non-containment references between data objects
in the tree. For example, one Employee data object might reference
another Employee to identify a career mentor. Deleting a data object
which has a non-containment reference to another data object does
not delete the referenced data object.
<para> An SDO may also have non-containment references between data objects in the
tree. For example, one Employee data object might reference another Employee to
identify a career mentor.
</para>
<para>
As well as data objects referencing each other, they can also have
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have a property called "name" of type string, for holding the name
of the company (for example, "Acme").
</para>
<para> Each of these properties of a data object - containment relationships,
non-containment references, or primitive properties - may be many-valued or
single-valued. In the above examples, Departments is many-valued and
the Company name is single-valued.
</para>
<para> In PHP, each SDO data object is represented as a PHP object. The properties of the
data object can be accessed using either object syntax or associative array syntax.
We'll see some examples of this later.
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="sdo.requirements">
&reftitle.required;
<para>
The SDO extension requires PHP 5.1 or higher.
</para>
<para>
SDO <link linkend="ref.sdo-das-xml">XML Data Access Service</link>,
which is built as part of this extension, requires libxml2
(Tested with libxml2 2.6.19) which can be downloaded from
<para> The SDO extension requires PHP 5.1 or higher. It also requires the libxml2 library.
Normally libxml2 will already be installed, but if not, it can be downloaded from
<ulink url='&url.libxml;'>&url.libxml;</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="sdo.installation">
&reftitle.install;
<para>
There are several options, depending on whether you are installing on
Windows or Linux, and depending on whether you are installing a released
version (a .tgz file from the PECL site) or the latest from CVS.
The Relational DAS also needs special attention as it is written in
PHP.
</para>
<para> The instructions are likely to change as PHP 5.1 progresses in status from beta to
stable release. The instructions here were correct on 6th October 2005, when PHP
5.1.0RC1 was the current release candidate for PHP, and 0.5.2 was the current beta
release of SDO.
</para>
<para>
The options are summarised in the following table:
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols='3'>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>latest/Release</entry>
<entry>Windows</entry>
<entry>Linux</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>
latest CVS
</entry>
<entry>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The latest DLLs for the SDO core and the XML DAS can be
downloaded from
<ulink url='&url.pecl.win.ext;php_sdo.dll'>php_sdo</ulink> and
<ulink url='&url.pecl.win.ext;php_sdo_das_xml.dll'>php_sdo_das_xml
</ulink> respectively.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Check out the Relational DAS from CVS to somewhere on the
PHP
<link linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</entry>
<entry>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Check out the SDO core and the XML DAS from CVS
and build according to the instructions
below for building on Linux.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Check out the Relational DAS from CVS to somewhere on the
PHP
<link linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
Release
</entry>
<entry>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
There is currently no way provided for building the release
version of the SDO core and XML DAS on a user's machine.
You will only be able to pick up the latest DLLs from the
snaps site (see previous row of this table).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The Relational DAS can be downloaded and installed with
the command:
</para>
<para>
<command>
pear install -B &lt;package name and level&gt;
</command>
</para>
<para>
Substitute the desired package name and level, for example
<varname>sdo-0.5.2</varname>, in the command above.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</entry>
<entry>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
You can download and install all three SDO components - the
SDO core, the XML DAS and the Relational DAS - with the
command:
</para>
<para>
<command>
pear install &lt;package name and level&gt;
</command>
</para>
<para>
Substitute the desired package name and level, for example
<varname>sdo-0.5.2</varname>, in the command above.
</para>
<para>
This command will build the SDO and XML shared libraries as well
as installing the PHP files that make the Relational DAS.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
<para>
Regardless of which platform or which level of the code you have installed
you will need add the two extension libraries to your &php.ini; file.
On Windows, add:
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.installation.ini.windows">
<![CDATA[
extension=php_sdo.dll
extension=php_sdo_das_xml.dll
]]>
</programlisting>
On Linux, add:
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.installation.ini.linux">
<procedure id='sdo.install.unix'>
<title>Unix systems</title>
<step>
<para> You can download and install the latest stable release of all three SDO
components - the SDO core, the XML DAS and the Relational DAS - with the command:
<screen> <![CDATA[
pear install sdo
]]>
</screen>
</para>
<para> This command will build the SDO and XML shared libraries as well as installing
the PHP files that make the Relational DAS.
</para>
<para>
If you want to use the latest beta version, then instead run:
<screen>
<![CDATA[
pear install sdo-beta
]]>
</screen>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para> The
<command>pear</command> command automatically installs the SDO and SDO_DAS_XML
modules into your PHP extensions directory. To enable the SDO extensions you must add
the following lines to &php.ini;:
<screen> <![CDATA[
extension=sdo.so
extension=sdo_das_xml.so
]]>
</programlisting>
You may also need to update your
<link linkend="ini.extension-dir">extension_dir</link>
in &php.ini; to point to the location of these libraries.
</para>
</screen>
</para>
<para> For more information about building PECL packages, consult the
<link linkend="install.pecl">PECL installation</link> section of the manual.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<procedure id='sdo.install.win32'>
<title>Windows</title>
<step>
<para>
The latest DLLs for the SDO core and the XML DAS can be
downloaded from
<ulink url='&url.pecl.win.ext;php_sdo.dll'>php_sdo.dll</ulink> and
<ulink url='&url.pecl.win.ext;php_sdo_das_xml.dll'>php_sdo_das_xml.dll</ulink> respectively.
</para>
<para>
Note that currently the <ulink url='&url.pecl.win;'>pecl4win</ulink> site does not provide
these binaries at the current release level; you can only download the latest level.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para> The
<command>pear</command> command automatically installs the SDO and SDO_DAS_XML
modules into your PHP extensions directory. To enable the SDO extensions you must add
the following lines to &php.ini;:
<screen>
<![CDATA[
extension=php_sdo.dll
extension=php_sdo_das_xml.dll
]]>
</screen>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para> The Relational DAS can be downloaded and installed with the command:
<screen>
<![CDATA[
pear install -B sdo
]]>
</screen>
</para>
<para> The Relational DAS is written in PHP. You may need to update your
<link linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link> in &php.ini; to point to
the directory that contains
<filename>sdo/DAS/Relational</filename>.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<para>
The Relational DAS is written in PHP. You may need to
update your
<link linkend="ini.include-path">include_path</link>
in &php.ini; to point to the directory that contains
<filename>sdo/DAS/Relational</filename>.
</para>
<procedure id='sdo.build.linux.steps'>
<title>Building SDO on Linux</title>
<para>
This section describes how to build the SDO core and XML DAS on Linux.
Currently you would only need to know how to do this if you
wish to build a recent version that you have checked out
of CVS.
<para> This section describes how to build the SDO core and XML DAS on Linux. You would
only need to know how to do this if you wish to build a recent version that you have checked
out of CVS.
</para>
<step>
<para>
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</step>
<step>
<para>
Next, run <command>./configure; make; make install</command>. Please
note, you may need to login as root to install the extension.
Next, run <command>./configure; make; make install</command>.
Please note, you may need to login as root to install the extension.
</para>
</step>
<step>
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Make sure that these modules are loaded by PHP, by adding
<command>extension=sdo.so</command> and
<command>extension=sdo_das_xml.so</command> to your
<filename>php.ini</filename> file in the same order.
&php.ini; file in the same order.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
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</entry>
<entry>
An XML Data Access Service supporting reading/writing
SDOs as XML documents or via a Web URL to supporting things like
RSS feeds.
SDOs as XML documents.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
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</entry>
<entry>
A PDO-based Data Access Service supporting reading/writing SDO
to relational data sources.
to relational databases.
Implements an optimistic concurrency policy for updates.
</entry>
</row>
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<step>
<para>
There is no support for multi-byte character sets.
This will be considered, depending on community requirements,
in the Unicode-enabled version of PHP.
See <link linkend="ref.unicode">Unicode Functions</link>.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
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It is not necessarily the case that these will all be added over time.
Their inclusion will depend on community requirements.
</para>
<step>
<para>
Abstract types and type derivation.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Open types.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Bi-directional relationships.
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</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
XMLHelper/XSDHelper (the XML DAS provides a lot of this functionality)
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
TypeHelper (the SDO_DAS_DataFactory provides this functionality)
<para>
The Helper classes defined in SDO 2.0 are not directly implemented.
However equivalent function is provided in a more natural way for PHP.
For example the function of <command>CopyHelper::copy()</command>
is provided by applying the PHP
<link linkend='language.oop5.cloning'>clone</link> keyword to a data object.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
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and instance information shown below, using the XML Data Access Service.
</para>
<para>
The schema describes a company data object.
The company contains department data objects, and
each department contains employee data objects.
Each data object has a number of primitive properties to describe things
like name, serial number, etc.
Finally, the company data object also has a non-containment reference
to one of the employee data objects to identify them as the
'employeeOfTheMonth'.
The instance document below describes a single company,
called 'MegaCorp', which contains a single department,
called 'Advanced Technologies'.
The Advanced Technologies department contains three employees.
The company employeeOfTheMonth is referencing the second employee,
'Jane Doe'.
</para>
<para>
<programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<company xmlns="companyNS" name="MegaCorp"
employeeOfTheMonth="E0003">
<departments name="Advanced Technologies" location="NY" number="123">
<employees name="John Jones" SN="E0001"/>
<employees name="Jane Doe" SN="E0003"/>
<employees name="Al Smith" SN="E0004" manager="true"/>
</departments>
</company>
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
<para> The root element of the schema is a company. The company contains departments, and
each department contains employees. Each element has a number of attributes to store
things like name, serial number, and so on. Finally, the company also has an IDREF
attribute which identifies one of the employees as the 'employeeOfTheMonth'.
</para>
<para>
<programlisting role="xml">
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<xsd:complexType name="CompanyType">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="departments" type="company:DepartmentType"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:attribute name="employeeOfTheMonth" type="xsd:IDREF"
sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> </xsd:complexType>
sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="DepartmentType">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="employees" type="company:EmployeeType"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:attribute name="location" type="xsd:string"/>
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]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
The instance document below describes a single company,
called 'MegaCorp', which contains a single department,
called 'Advanced Technologies'.
The Advanced Technologies department contains three employees.
The company employeeOfTheMonth is referencing the second employee,
'Jane Doe'.
<para>The XML Data Access Service maps the schema to an SDO. Attributes such as "name"
become primitive properties, the sequence of employees becomes a many-valued
containment relationship, and so on. Note that the containment relationships are
expressed as one complex type within another, whereas non-containment references are
expressed in terms of ID and IDREF, with a special
<command>sdoxml:propertyType</command> attribute specifying the type of the
non-containment reference.
</para>
<para>
<programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<company xmlns="companyNS" name="MegaCorp"
employeeOfTheMonth="#/departments.0/employees.1">
<departments name="Advanced Technologies" location="NY" number="123">
<employees name="John Jones" SN="E0001"/>
<employees name="Jane Doe" SN="E0003"/>
<employees name="Al Smith" SN="E0004" manager="true"/>
</departments>
</company>
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="sdo.sample.getset">
<title>Setting and Getting Property Values</title>
<para>
The following examples assume <command>$company</command> is a data
object created from the schema and instance document shown above.
<para> The following examples assume
<command>$company</command> is the root of a tree of data objects created from the
schema and instance document shown above.
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Access via Property names</title>
<title>Access via property name</title>
<para>
Data object properties can be accessed using the object property
access syntax. The following gets the list of departments
(containing a single department), and sets the company name to 'Acme'.
access syntax. The following sets the company name to 'Acme'.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.propname">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$departments = $company->departments;
$company->name = 'Acme';
?>
]]>
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<para>
<example>
<title>Access via Property index</title>
<para>
Data object properties can be accessed via their property index
using array syntax. The property index is the position at which the
property's definition appears in the model (in this case the xml
schema).
We can see from the schema listing above that the departments element
is the first company property defined and the company name attribute
is the second company property (the SDO interface makes no distinction
between XML attributes and elements).
The following gets the list of departments (containing a single
department), and sets the company name to 'Acme'.
<title>Access via property name as array index</title>
<para>We can also access properties using associative array syntax. The simplest
form of this uses the property name as the array index. For example, the following sets
the company name and gets the employeeOfTheMonth.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.propindex">
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.simplexpath">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$departments = $company[0];
$company[1] = 'Acme';
$company['name'] = 'UltraCorp';
$eotm = $company['employeeOfTheMonth'];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
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<para>
<example>
<title>Data Object Iteration</title>
<title>Data Object iteration</title>
<para>
We can iterate over the properties of a data object using foreach.
The following iterates over the company properties; name,
departments and employeeOfTheMonth.
The following iterates over the properties of the employee of the month.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.doiter">
<![CDATA[
<?php
foreach ($company as $name => $value) {
// ...
$eotm = $company->employeeOfTheMonth;
foreach ($eotm as $name => $value) {
echo "$name: $value\n";
}
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
For the first iteration, $name will be 'name' and $value
will be 'Acme'. For the second iteration, $name will be
'departments' and $value will be an SDO_List (because departments is a
many-valued property (stated <command>maxOccurs="unbouded"</command>
in the schema)) containing a single data object of type DepartmentType.
For the third iteration, $name will be 'employeeOfTheMonth' and $value
will be a data object of type EmployeeType.
<para>
which will output:
</para>
<programlisting id="sdo.examples.doiter-output">
<![CDATA[
name: Jane Doe
SN: E0003
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
The 'manager' property is not output, because it has not been set.
</para>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Access many-valued property by name</title>
<para> Many-valued data object properties can also be accessed using the object
property name syntax. The following gets the list of departments.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.mvpname">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$departments = $company->departments;
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Many-valued element access</title>
<para>
We can access individual elements of many-valued properties using array
syntax. The following accesses the first department in the company.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.mvaccess">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$ad_tech_dept = $company->departments[0];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Many-valued Property Iteration</title>
<title>Many-valued property iteration</title>
<para>
Many-valued properties can also be iterated over using
foreach. The following iterates over the company's departments.
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<para>
<example>
<title>Many-valued Element Access</title>
<para>
We can access individual elements of many-valued properties using array
syntax. The following accesses the first department in the company.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.mvaccess">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$ad_tech_dept = $company->departments[0];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Nested Property Access</title>
<para>
We can use nested property access to navigate the data object
instance structure. The following gets and sets the name of the first
department.
<title>Chained property access</title>
<para> We can chain property references on a single line.
The following sets and gets the name of the first department.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.nestedprop">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$dept_name = $company->departments[0]->name;
$company->departments[0]->name = 'Emerging Technologies';
$dept_name = $company->departments[0]->name;
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Simple XPath support</title>
<para>
We can access properties using XPath-like (an augmented
sub-set of XPath) expressions, the simplest form of which is the
property name.
The following sets the company name and gets the employeeOfTheMonth.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.simplexpath">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$company['name'] = 'UltraCorp';
$eotm = $company['employeeOfTheMonth'];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Simple XPath support</title>
<para>
We can use chained array access calls to navigate the data
object instance structure. The following gets and sets the name of the
first department.
</para>
<para>Using the associative array syntax, this is equivalent to</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.chainarray">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$dept_name = $company['departments'][0]['name'];
$company['departments'][0]['name'] = 'Emerging Technologies';
$dept_name = $company['departments'][0]['name'];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para> In either case, the dept_name variable is set to 'Emerging Technologies'.
</para>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>XPath Navigation</title>
<title>XPath navigation</title>
<para> The associative array index can be an XPath-like expression. Valid
expressions are defined by an augmented sub-set of XPath.
</para>
<para>
We can use XPath expressions to navigate the data object
instance structure. Two forms of indexing into many-valued
properties are supported.
Two forms of indexing into many-valued properties are supported.
The first is the standard XPath array syntax with the indexing
starting at one, the second is an SDO extension to XPath with an index
starting at zero. The following both get the second employee from the
first department.
starting at zero. The standard syntax is:
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.xpathnav">
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.xpath1nav">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$jane_doe = $company["departments[1]/employees[2]"];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>and the SDO XPath extension syntax is:</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.xpath0nav">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$jane_doe = $company["departments.0/employees.1"];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
Both these examples get the second employee from the first department.
</para>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>XPath Querying</title>
<title>XPath querying</title>
<para>
We can use XPath to query and identify parts of a data object based
on instance data. The following retrieves the manager from the
'Advanced Technologies' department.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.xpathquery">
<![CDATA[
<![CDATA[
<?php
$ad_tech_mgr =
$company["departments[name=\"Advanced Technologies\"]/employees[manager=\"true\"]"];
$company["departments[name='Advanced Technologies']/employees[manager=true]"];
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
@ -682,7 +580,7 @@ sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> </xsd:complexType>
<para>
<example>
<title>Creating child data object</title>
<title>Creating child data objects</title>
<para>
A data object can be a factory for its child data objects.
A child data object is automatically part of the data graph.
@ -692,7 +590,7 @@ sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> </xsd:complexType>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.create">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$ad_tech_dept = $company["departments[name=\"Advanced Technologies\"]"];
$ad_tech_dept = $company["departments[name='Advanced Technologies']"];
$new_hire = $ad_tech_dept->createDataObject('employees');
$new_hire->name = 'John Johnson';
$new_hire->SN = 'E0005';
@ -705,12 +603,45 @@ sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> </xsd:complexType>
<para>
<example>
<title>Unset referenced data object</title>
<title>Unset a primitive property</title>
<para>
We can use the <function>isset</function> and
<function>unset</function> functions to test and remove items
from the data object.
</para>
<para>
The following clears the name of the first department.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.unsetprim">
<![CDATA[
<?php
unset($company->departments[0]->name);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Unset a data object</title>
<para>
unset can also be used to remove a data object from the tree.
The following example shows John Jones leaving the company.
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.unsetdo">
<![CDATA[
<?php
unset($company->departments[0]->employees[0]);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Unset a referenced data object</title>
<para>
The following removes the 'employeeOfTheMonth' from the company.
If this were a containment relationship then the
@ -732,6 +663,32 @@ sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> </xsd:complexType>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Access via property index</title>
<para> Data object properties can be accessed via their property index using array
syntax. The property index is the position at which the property's definition
appears in the model (in this case the xml schema). We can see from the schema listing
above that the company name attribute is the second company property (the SDO
interface makes no distinction between XML attributes and elements). The following
sets the company name to 'Acme', with the same result as
<link linkend="sdo.examples.propname">Access via property name</link>
</para>
<programlisting role="php" id="sdo.examples.propindex">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$company[1] = 'Acme';
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para> Using the index directly in this way is likely to be fragile. Normally the
property name syntax should be preferred, but the property index may be required
in special cases.
</para>
</example>
</para>
</section>
<section id="sdo.sample.sequence">