vern wrote:
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Greetings, how would I pass variables that are outside a class ... to
a class? Such as ...
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$variable_one = 1;
$variable_two = 2;
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class this_is_a_class {
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public $variable_one;
public $variable_two;
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}
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I want to pass both variables to the class this_is_a_class. How would
I go about doing this?
The whole idea behind OOP is that you can't do that. All you can do is
to have the instance of the class obtain the value on its own. This is
done with a mutator function where the instance of the class goes and
obtains the value and then sets that value in its own data set. Your
example:
Inside the class TheClass:
private $variable_one;
private $variable_two;
public function setVariableOne($val) {
$this->variable_one = $val;
}
Outside the class TheClass;
$obj = new TheClass();
$obj->setVariableOne('foo');
The variables $variable_one and $variable_two are members of the class
and are NOT exposed to the outside world except my mutator functions of
set and get. You can't just set them or get them by a direct call. You
MUST have those helper mutator functions.
