CFDBTransform.php

<?php
/*
    "Contact Form to Database" Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Michael Simpson  (email : michael.d.simpson@gmail.com)

    This file is part of Contact Form to Database.

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*/

/**
 * Interface CFDBTransform for user-defined classes that can be used to transform data
 * as it is returned from the database but before it is is formatted for display.
 * See: short code "trans" option.
 */
interface CFDBTransform {

    /**
     * @param $entry array associative array of a single for entry
     * @return void
     */
    public function addEntry(&$entry);

    /**
     * Call this when done adding entries. Apply transform across all entered data,
     * then return the entire set. The returned set may be entirely different data than
     * what was input (e.g. statistics)
     * @return array of associative of array of data.
     */
    public function getTransformedData();

}