boinc/html/inc/forum_mainfactory.inc

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<?php
/**
* The purpose of this file is to act as a factory for objects that need to
* be accessible from every file in the web frontend. This file is included
* as standard
**/
class MainFactory {
// Private variable to store the current database handler
var $databaseHandler;
/**
* The root of the forum tree is the categories. These will be returned
* as objects in a list by this function
**/
function getCategories(){
$dbhandler = $this->getDatabaseHandler();
$category_list = $dbhandler->getCategoryIDs();
$i=0;
while (isset($category_list[$i])){
// For each category id create the coresponding Category object
$categories[]=new Category($category_list[$i]);
$i++;
}
return $categories;
}
/**
* The database is accessed through a database handler. The default
* database handler is returned by this function.
* (The default depends on project preferences)
**/
function getDatabaseHandler(){
// STUB: The default at the moment is the MySQLDatabaseHandler as it
// is the only handler. Theoretically this should be read from a
// config file instead of being hardcoded.
// Singleton pattern. Only one database handler instance needs to exist
if (!$this->databaseHandler) {
require_once("../inc/forum_dbh.inc");
require_once("../inc//forum_mysql_dbh.inc");
$this->databaseHandler = new MySQLDatabaseHandler();
}
return $this->databaseHandler;
}
}
// This object is globally accessible as $mainFactory
$mainFactory = new MainFactory();
?>