Elgg\Database\MetastringsTable Class Reference

Public Member Functions
	__construct (Pool $cache, Database $db)
	Constructor. More...
	getId ($string, $case_sensitive=true)
	Gets the metastring identifier for a value. More...
	add ($string)
	Add a metastring. More...
	getTableName ()
	The full name of the metastrings table, including prefix. More...

Detailed Description

Definition at line 21 of file MetastringsTable.php.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Elgg\Database\MetastringsTable::__construct	(	Pool	$cache,
		Database	$db
	)

Constructor.

Parameters

Pool	$cache	A cache for this table.
Database	$db	The database.

Definition at line 35 of file MetastringsTable.php.

Member Function Documentation

Elgg\Database\MetastringsTable::add

(

$string

)

Add a metastring.

Warning

You should not call this directly. Use elgg_get_metastring_id().

Parameters

string

$string

The value to be normalized

Returns

int The identifier for this string

Definition at line 116 of file MetastringsTable.php.

Elgg\Database\MetastringsTable::getId	(		$string,
			$case_sensitive = true
	)

Gets the metastring identifier for a value.

Elgg normalizes the names and values of annotations and metadata. This function provides the identifier used as the index in the metastrings table. Plugin developers should only use this if denormalizing names/values for performance reasons (to avoid multiple joins on the metastrings table).

Parameters

string	$string	The value
bool	$case_sensitive	Should the retrieval be case sensitive? If not, there may be more than one result

Returns

int|array metastring id or array of ids

Definition at line 54 of file MetastringsTable.php.

Elgg\Database\MetastringsTable::getTableName

(

)

The full name of the metastrings table, including prefix.

Returns

string

Definition at line 127 of file MetastringsTable.php.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• engine/classes/Elgg/Database/MetastringsTable.php