Person::save
Up: class Person
This method updates the record contents in the database server. If previously detected errors have been accumulated in $this‑>msg this method suppresses the update, generates a warning that includes the text of the messages to explain why the record was not updated, and returns 0. If $person‑>isExisting() is false this inserts a new record into the table. The value of the primary key is not passed in the INSERT as it is an auto-increment field, whose value will be determined by the database server. If $person->isExisting() is true the existing database record is updated.
The method is extended so that the fields id, idir, surnamesoundex, added, addedtime, updated,and updatedtime are filled in from the SQL server.
| parameter | description |
|---|---|
| $xml | If the value is boolean true then a representation of the SQL command issued to update the database is printed on the output enclosed in an XML <cmd> tag. If the value is a string then the representation of the SQL command issued to update the database is printed on the output enclosed in an XML <$xml> tag. If the leading characters of the string contain spaces these are extracted and used as an indentation value before the tag and end-tag. If there are any characters after a valid XML tag name these are extracted and presented only in the opening tag. Otherwise no output is generated. |
For example if the text is to be displayed as part of a web page then you may set the parameter to 'p' or " p class='cssclassname'".
The method returns boolean false if the method was unable to update the database, it returns 1 if the method updated the database record, or 0 if the database did not need to be updated because there were no changes to the record.
The method throws an Exception if user is not authorized to update the database.
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