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Hi I'm trying to make a method inside Model_User which will allow me to get upcoming events, or passed_events of that user I call. So, if I was on a profile page, I could do $user->upcomining_events(); And if I was on my profile, as I have $current_user set as a template global, I want to be able to do $current_user->upcoming_events(); I decided it is better to do it this way than alter the relationship to handle the date before/after today, as I still want to be able to do $user->events to get ALL their events, regardless of past or future. My code so far; which isn't working..

<?php

class Model_User extends \Orm\Model
{
 protected static $_has_many = array('events', 'attendees', 'friends');
 
 protected static $_observers = array(
  'Orm\Observer_CreatedAt' => array(
   'events' => array('before_insert'),
   'mysql_timestamp' => false,
  ),
  'Orm\Observer_UpdatedAt' => array(
   'events' => array('before_save'),
   'mysql_timestamp' => false,
  ),
 );
 
 public static function upcoming_events()
 {
  $query = Model_Event::find()
   ->where('start_date', '>=', date('m/d/Y'))
   ->where('user_id', $this->id)
   ->get();
        
  return $query;
 }

It gives me the error:

ErrorException [ Error ]: Using $this when not in object context

However, if I replace $this->id with 1 (my ID) it works! Not sure what to do.. Thanks for your help