The thing about PHP classes is that there are not many rules. It is usually suggested, as a matter of good practice to use get and set functions for your variables in classes in any language. A lot of people my think this is a bunch of extra work, but let's say you are keeping track of customers, and you are storing their phone number. If you write get/set functions for that variable, if later on you decide that you really need to be validating the phone numbers format, or getting a particular format out of the class you can easily add that code right in the get/set function and then that process only has to happen in one place, keeping your code nice and clean.
greg -----Original Message----- From: Gerard Samuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:45 AM To: php-gen Subject: [PHP] Info into Class Are there any rules as to how information from outside a class can be moved into it. What Ive been doing so far is 1. Through the constructor 2. defining a constant 3. Create a method whose sole purpose is to move data from the outside into the class. i.e. <?php class foo () { ...... function outside_data($bar) { $this->bar = $bar; } ...... } // class constructor here ....... $class->outside_data($php); ?> -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
