Level 29
Its your code, you will need to decide, right?
Plus, anyway, its mostly used for setters (fluent), so even if you have $this returned for all of them, makes no harm.
Aug 1, 2016
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Level 2
When to return this vs no value
I'm wondering if there's a guideline/best practice for when to return $this vs. no value from a model method. I've seen both in the video tutorials ... eg. do something and return $this ... vs ... do something with no return value. I understand returning $this when you know you need to chain methods. Just wondering how to decide if you don't know if it will make sense to use the method in a chain.
Level 2
Thanks d3xt3r. Part of me hates trying to decide these things. Sticking to some kind of standard not only means I don't have choose, but makes the code a little easier to predict for the next person who has to maintain it. I was hoping someone else had already done the hard thinking :)
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