And Or Alternatives
I’m in the process of adding some methods to the database object to help in writing chained queries for Garden. One of the annoying problems I’ve run into is that the words “or” and “and” are reserved and won’t work as method names. So, for example, imagine I wanted to write the following chained query:
$Database
->Select('FieldName')
->From('TableName')
->Where('FieldName', 'value')
->Or()
->Where('FieldName', 'othervalue')
->And()
->Where('FieldName', 'Yet Another Value')
->Get();
I realize that this query really doesn’t make much sense, but that’s beside the point. The “or” and the “and” methods can’t exist in PHP, so what should I use instead?
I’ve played with things like AndOp and OrOp, implying that they are operators. I’ve tried going for shorter versions like Nd and R, but those are just stupid and don’t make much sense. I’ve also considered having OrWhere and AndWhere methods, but that would mean adding a whole bunch of methods like that (think: OrWhere, AndWhere, OrLike, AndLike, OrWhereIn, AndWhereIn, etc).
I’m looking for community input here. What would you prefer to type?
