On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM, uaca man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all my fellow members of the PHP community. > > As a personal rule i always use $this in front of class members, but i > always knew from others programing languages and i guess I just > thought it was same in PHP that without $this keyword it should work > just the same, however in the code bellow it is clear that $value is > not the same as $this->value. This test was done in PHP5. > > Anyone care to elucidate if this is correct?
afaik, php requires instance variables to be qualified w/ $this->, no matter what. in other languages, you can omit the this (self or w/e) keyword, unless you want to settle a collision between a local variable and instance variable w/ the same identifier. unfotunately it doesnt work like that in php, and although it requires more typing, i think it makes the code more understandable at a glance. -nathan
