Can I do this in php5?

[Ming]

private fields declaration like Java

require 'XML/RPC.php';
....

private XML_RPC_Client $Client;

I know I can do

private $Client;

Thanks,

[Jerry Stuckle]

Ming wrote:

private fields declaration like Java

require 'XML/RPC.php';
...

private XML_RPC_Client $Client;

I know I can do

private $Client;

Thanks,

No. PHP is untyped; $Client can be anything. Just assign a new
XML_RPC_Client to $Client in your constructor.

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[Mike P2]

On May 16, 1:28 pm, Ming <minghu...@gmai l.comwrote:

private fields declaration like Java

require 'XML/RPC.php';
...

private XML_RPC_Client $Client;

I know I can do

private $Client;

Thanks,

You cannot do it exactly the same as in Java, but you don't really
need to worry about doing that in PHP. If you want, you can initialize
it with "$Client = new XML_RPC_Client( );" but that's unnecessary. You
might as well just do "private $Client;" to make the field and then
"$Client = new XML_RPC_Client( );" in a method. If you are concerned
because you are taking the object as an argument and setting $Client
to that, you can be selective with your arguments (in PHP5+) like:

public function setClient( XML_RPC_Client $argClient )
{
$this->Client = $argClient;
}

Note that you don't need to use =& in PHP5.

-Mike PII

[ZeldorBlat]

On May 16, 1:28 pm, Ming <minghu...@gmai l.comwrote:

private fields declaration like Java

require 'XML/RPC.php';
...

private XML_RPC_Client $Client;

I know I can do

private $Client;

Thanks,

Not in that context. Besides, why would you want to? Don't you trust
yourself to put the right thing in there? :)

Having said that, PHP allows you to specify the class of an argument
to a function. See this:

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.t ypehinting.php>

[Ming]

Many thanks to all of you :)