Fusion Robot

Creations Name : The munchie function - a guide to class

Launch Record : September 18th 2008

//OOP - The Basics

//Class

//Just imagine an object, like a new generation of killer robot needing a template. We call this template a "Class". The class can be any name that is not a reserved word in PHP. Surrounding the curly braces we place the definition of the variables, methods and members. A pseudo-variable, $this is at our disposal when a method is called from within an object.

//It is a reference to the calling object.

class Peanut { function munchie() { if (isset($this)) { echo '$this is defined ('; echo get_class($this); echo ")n"; } else { echo "$this is not defined.n"; } } }

class Pecan { function scoff() { Peanut::munchie(); } }

$a = new Peanut(); //new object of class Peanut

$a->munchie(); // $this is defined (a) Peanut::munchie(); // $this is not defined.

$b = new Pecan(); //new object of class Pecan

$b->scoff(); // $this is defined (b) Pecan::scoff(); //$this is not defined.