Create Doctrine Record Object Dynamically - Symfony 1.4

Question

I've had a quick search to find an answer for this but honestly im not even 100% on what to search for.

This is more of an optimisation issue than an actual problem but I could do with the help.

In my Symfony 1.4 project I have created some methods to "get or create objects" like so:

protected function getOrCreateManufacturer($name)
{
    $manufacturer = ManufacturerTable::getInstance()->findOneBy('name', $name);

    if(!$manufacturer)
    {
        $manufacturer = new Manufacturer();
        $manufacturer->setName($name);
    }

    return $manufacturer;
}

I have a few of these for different objects all of which do the exact same thing. I am trying to create a method that can replace a lot of the code inside these methods so that they can all call it like so:

protected function getOrCreateManufacturer($name)
{
    return $this->getOrCreateObject('Manufacturer', 'name', $name);
}

protected function getOrCreateObject($table, $field, $value)
{
    $object = Doctrine::getTable($table)->findOneBy($field, $value);

    if(!$object)
    {
        // create object here
        $object->set($field, $value);
    }

    return $object;

}

But I can't seem to find out how I can create an instance of my Objects.

The objects I'm trying to create all extend sfDoctrineRecord.

If I can't do it then thats fine but it'd be cool if its possible.

Cheers.

Answer 1

You can try a simple :

if(!$object)
{
    $object = new $table();
    $object->set($field, $value);
}