PHP: Prevent chained method from returning?

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Published on 2011-02-22T15:15:31Z Indexed on 2011/02/22 15:25 UTC
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Hi,

I am having some headaches regarding method chaining for a quite simple PHP class that returns a value, which sometimes need to go through a decryption process:

$dataset = new Datacontainer;
$key = $dataset->get('key');
$key2 = $dataset->get('key')->decrypt();

The get method is where the return lives. So the call to the decrypt method on the second row isn't going to work in its current state.

Can I do something to setup the get method to return only when nothing is chained to it, or what would be the best way to re-factor this code?

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