Concrete 5.8 Express Entry Block - Filter results by attribute

Question

Following the Developer documentation here is it possible to go further and filter the results by the object's attributes?

For example, say you had multiple boats in a Marina that had the same owner and you wanted to find only that owner's boats in the Marina is there a way of filtering the data down further (ie filter by the attribute BoatOwner).

After much reading of the Doctrine2 documentation I can understand that this can be done but I can't work out how to extend the C5 code or what methods I can call to do this.

<?php defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied.")); ?>
<?php

if (isset($entry) && is_object($entry)) {

$boats = $entry->getBoats();

?>

<table class="table">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Year</th>
        <th>Owner</th>
        <th>Classification</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
<tbody>
<?php if (count($boats)) {
    foreach($boats as $boat) { ?>
        <tr>
            <td><?=$boat->getBoatName()?></td>
            <td><?=$boat->getBoatYear()?></td>
            <td><?=$boat->getBoatOwner()?></td>
            <td><?=$boat->getBoatClass()?></td>
        </tr>
    <?php } ?>
<?php } else { ?>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="4">No boats found.</td>
    </tr>
<?php } ?>
</tbody>
</table>

<?php } ?>

The above is the code from the C5 documentation. Can the magic "get" method be extended in some way or is there a simpler solution working with the $boats array (I think it's an array) to select only the boats with a certain attribute value?

Answer 1

The answer was to place an if statement with the foreach loop.

if (count($boats)) {
    foreach($boats as $boat) { 
if($boat->getBoatOwner() == "boat owner's name here") {
?>
<tr>
        <td><?=$boat->getBoatName()?></td>
        <td><?=$boat->getBoatYear()?></td>
        <td><?=$boat->getBoatOwner()?></td>
        <td><?=$boat->getBoatClass()?></td>
    </tr>

<?php;
            } else {
                ?>

    <?php;
            } 



        ?>



        <?php } ?>
    <?php } else { ?>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="4">No boats found.</td>
        </tr>
    <?php } ?>
    </tbody>
</table>
<?php } ?>

I'm thinking I will pass the boat owner's name as a variable probably from page attribute for this to be of any use.