a) I don't see how the part about the "dot notation" has anything to
do with the class presetned
b) I don't see any benefit to the class presented
c) Trying to follow the chain of -> operators and method calls just
gave me a headache.
Other than that, it's really nifty. :-v
On Thu, April 12, 2007 1:22 am, Jim Lucas wrote:
> Ok, I have seen many different examples of OOP, but nothing quite like
> this.
>
> Someone was showing me syntax for Ruby the other day, and it got me
> thinking, wouldn't it be neat to
> imitate ruby, or be it a little more generic, dot notation for OOP
> ways of calling methods like
> Java, javascript, ruby and others. So I came up with this.
>
> Seems to work in PHP5, but chokes in PHP4.
>
> I would like input on this setup for calling methods.
>
> <plaintext><?php
>
> class myString {
> private $value = '';
> function __construct() {
> }
> function in($str=null) {
> if ( is_null($str) ) {
> echo "A string wasn't given.";
> exit;
> }
> $this->value = $str;
> $this->setProperties();
> return $this;
> }
> function out() {
> echo $this->value;
> }
> function get() {
> return $this->value;
> }
> function append($a) {
> $this->value = $this->value.$a;
> $this->setProperties();
> return $this;
> }
> function prepend($a) {
> $this->value = $a.$this->value;
> $this->setProperties();
> return $this;
> }
> function regex_replace($from, $to) {
> $this->value = preg_replace("!{$from}!", $to, $this->value);
> $this->setProperties();
> return $this;
> }
> function setProperties() {
> $this->str_length = strlen($this->value);
> return $this;
> }
> function length() {
> return $this->str_length;
> }
> }
>
> $str = new myString;
>
> echo $str->in("Starting String!")->prepend("Second
> String!")->regex_replace(' ', '_')->get();
> echo $str->length();
> $str->in("A new string")->out();
>
> ?>
>
> Has anybody else seen this style of syntax?
>
> Have they used this style of syntax?
>
> If so, what is your opinion of this style?
>
> TIA
> Jim
>
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