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Person::mergeFrom

James Cobban edited this page Sep 16, 2019 · 1 revision

$person->mergeFrom($individ2)

Up: class Person

Update this instance of Person by merging in information from a second instance of Person. All attributes which do not have a non-empty value are filled in from the corresponding attributes in the second Person. Textual fields become the concatenation of the values from the two Persons. Events present in the second person if they are not equivalent to the corresponding events in the first person are added. It has one parameter

parameter description
$individ2 An instance of class Person from which information is to be merged.

This method returns an array each row of which describes an update made to the Person. Each row in the array is an associative array:

name contents
field fieldname of field updated by this method
value new value of the field

Next: $person->save($xml)

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