Catching the returned value - php

Question

this may be a stupid question, but every source on the web seems not able to fully explain the logic to my complex brain
There's an edit page getting a $_GET['id'] from a link.
I got a function on my class elaborating this one to create an array of values from the database which must fill the form fields to edit datas. The short part of this code:
public function prel() {
$this->id= $_GET['id'];
}
public function EditDb () {
$connetti = new connessionedb();
$dbc = $connetti->Connessione();
$query = "SELECT * from anammi.anagrafica WHERE id = '$this->id'";
$mysqli = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
if ($mysqli) {
$fetch = mysqli_fetch_assoc($mysqli);
return $fetch;
}
}
This array (which i tried to print) is perfectly ready to do what i'd like.
My pain starts when i need to pass it to the following function in the same class, which perhaps calls a parent method to print the form:
public function Associa() {
$a = $this->EditDb();
$this->old_id = $a['old_id'];
$this->cognome = $a['cognome'];
$this->nome = $a['nome'];
$this->sesso = $a['sesso'];
$this->tipo_socio_id = $a['tipo_socio_id'];
$this->titolo = $a['titolo']; }
public function Body() {
parent::Body();
}
How do i have to pass this $fetch?
My implementation:
<?php
require_once '/classes/class.ConnessioneDb.php';
require_once '/classes/class.editForm';
$edit = new EditForm();
$edit->prel();
if ($edit->EditDb()) {
$edit->Associa();
$edit->Body();

Answer 1

if (if ($edit->EditDb()) {
$edit->Associa();
$edit->Body();) {
$edit->Associa();
$edit->Body();
your Editdb method is returning a string and you are checking for a boolean condition in if statement. this is one problem.
using fetch-
$fetch=$edit->EditDb();
$edit->Associa();
$edit->Body($fetch);

Answer 2

Posting the full code of it:
public function prel() {
$this->id= $_GET['id'];
}
public function EditDb () {
$connetti = new connessionedb();
$dbc = $connetti->Connessione();
$query = "SELECT * from table WHERE id = '$this->id'";
$mysqli = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
if ($mysqli) {
$fetch = mysqli_fetch_assoc($mysqli);
return $fetch;
}
}
public function Associa($fetch) {
$this->old_id = $fetch['old_id'];
$this->cognome = $fetch['cognome'];
$this->nome = $fetch['nome'];
$this->sesso = $fetch['sesso']; //it goes on from there with many similar lines
}
public function Body() {
$body = form::Body();
return $body;
}
Implementation
$edit = new EditForm();
$edit->prel();
$fetch=$edit->EditDb();
$edit->Associa($fetch);
$print = $edit->Body();
echo $print;
Being an edit form base on a parent insert form, i added an if in the parent form that sees if is set an $_GET['id] and prints the right form header with the right form action. This was tricky but really satisfying.