/**
* Constructor.
*
* TODO: get_ship_info call must not be mandatory (for example, if we
* only create a new ship objects so it can be made part of
* fleet to be added to the database, we don't want to grab
* all info about the ship from the db
*
* @param $ship_id
* @return (nothing)
*/
public function __construct($ship_name)
{
global $db;
$this->db = $db;
// load valid shipnames
$ships = new ships();
$valid_ship_names = $ships->get_all_ships_name();
// only proceed if the passed ship_name is an allowed shipname
if (in_array($ship_name, $valid_ship_names)) {
$this->name = $ship_name;
$this->get_ship_info($this->name);
}
}
/**
* Grabs all ship names and reformats them to column name format. The
* fleet_id parameter is passed such that the correct column can be
* constructed.
*
* @param $fleet_id (0, 1, 2, 3)
* @return unknown_type
*/
private function ship2column($fleet_id)
{
// 1 - get all ship names
$ships = new ships();
$ships_name = $ships->get_all_ships_name();
// 2 - format properly and attach fleet_number
foreach ($ships_name as $ship_name) {
$ships_out[] = strtolower($ship_name) . "_" . $fleet_id;
}
return $ships_out;
}
