Why does my class require the public accessor for my member?

[jmDesktop]

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

public $connection;

function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;

}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing. Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().

What am I doing wrong? And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? Thank you.

[Jerry Stuckle]

jmDesktop wrote:

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

public $connection;

function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;

}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing. Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().

What am I doing wrong? And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? Thank you.

You don't see any errors because error_reporting and/or display_errors
is disabled.

In your php.ini file, ensure you have:

display_errors= on
error_reporting =E_ALL

Enable these and you'll see your syntax error.

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[jmDesktop]

On Sep 15, 7:53*pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

jmDesktop wrote:

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

* *public $connection;

* *function getme()
* *{
* * *$this->connection = "test";
* * *return $this->connection;

* *}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;

echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing. *Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. *Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. *If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. *I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().

What am I doing wrong? *And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? *Thank you.

You don't see any errors because error_reporting and/or display_errors
is disabled.

In your php.ini file, ensure you have:

display_errors= on
error_reporting =E_ALL

Enable these and you'll see your syntax error.

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I tried that with:

error_reporting = E_ALL

; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web
sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging
; instead (see below). Keeping display_errors enabled on a production
web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on
your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
;
; possible values for display_errors:
;
; Off - Do not display any errors
; stderr - Display errors to STDERR (affects only CGI/CLI
binaries!)
; On or stdout - Display errors to STDOUT (default)
;
; To output errors to STDERR with CGI/CLI:
;display_errors = "stderr"
;
; Default
;
display_errors On

; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during PHP's
startup
; sequence are not displayed. It's strongly recommended to keep
; display_startup _errors off, except for when debugging.
display_startup _errors = On

I just get a blank page. I put the public modifier in it works.

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(jmDesktop)

>Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

public $connection;

function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;

}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connection ," I get nothing.

Not sure what you mean. Can you post the code that does not work?

Micha

[jmDesktop]

On Sep 16, 10:02*am, Michael Fesser <[e-mail] wrote:

.oO(jmDesktop)

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

* public $connection;

* function getme()
* {
* * $this->connection = "test";
* * return $this->connection;

* }

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;

echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing.

Not sure what you mean. Can you post the code that does not work?

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It is in the original post. I got it to work by using a modifier or
public or private, but now I don't know why error reporting isn't
working.

[Jerry Stuckle]

jmDesktop wrote:

On Sep 15, 7:53 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>jmDesktop wrote:

>>Consider:
<?php
echo "start";
class myClass
{
public $connection;
function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;
}
}
$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";
?>
If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connection, " I get nothing. Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().
What am I doing wrong? And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? Thank you.

You don't see any errors because error_reporting and/or display_errors
is disabled.

In your php.ini file, ensure you have:

display_errors =on
error_reportin g=E_ALL

Enable these and you'll see your syntax error.

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I tried that with:

error_reporting = E_ALL

; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web
sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging
; instead (see below). Keeping display_errors enabled on a production
web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on
your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
;
; possible values for display_errors:
;
; Off - Do not display any errors
; stderr - Display errors to STDERR (affects only CGI/CLI
binaries!)
; On or stdout - Display errors to STDOUT (default)
;
; To output errors to STDERR with CGI/CLI:
;display_errors = "stderr"
;
; Default
;
display_errors On

; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during PHP's
startup
; sequence are not displayed. It's strongly recommended to keep
; display_startup _errors off, except for when debugging.
display_startup _errors = On

I just get a blank page. I put the public modifier in it works.

Please see my comment above. It is

display_errors= On

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(jmDesktop)

>Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

public $connection;

function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;

}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connection ," I get nothing.

Not sure what you mean. Can you post the code that does not work?

Micha

Micha, he gets a syntax error but doesn't have display_errors enabled.

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[Curtis]

jmDesktop wrote:

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

public $connection;

function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;

}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing. Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().

What am I doing wrong? And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? Thank you.

As Jerry has explained, it's not "display_er rors on", it's

display_errors = On

Also, if you want to make class members private, use the "private"
keyword. Within a class definition, you have to precede property
declarations with a visibility keyword, or "var", which is equivalent
to "public", and exists for compatibility with PHP4. All of this info
is readily available in the PHP docs:

<URL:http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.v isibility.php>

Example:

class Foo {
private $bar;
function getBar() {
return $this->bar;
}
}

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[jmDesktop]

On Sep 16, 11:47*am, Curtis <dye...@gmail.c omwrote:

jmDesktop wrote:

Consider:
<?php

echo "start";

class myClass
{

* *public $connection;

* *function getme()
* *{
* * *$this->connection = "test";
* * *return $this->connection;

* *}

}

$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;

echo "done";

?>

If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connectio n," I get nothing. *Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. *Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. *If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. *I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().

What am I doing wrong? *And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? *Thank you.

As Jerry has explained, it's not "display_er rors on", it's

display_errors = On

Also, if you want to make class members private, use the "private"
keyword. Within a class definition, you have to precede property
declarations with a visibility keyword, or "var", which is equivalent
to "public", and exists for compatibility with PHP4. All of this info
is readily available in the PHP docs:

<URL:http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.v isibility.php>

Example:

class Foo {
* * private $bar;
* * function getBar() {
* * * *return $this->bar;
* * }

}

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Thanks. I left out the equals, but I have changed it to this:
; To output errors to STDERR with CGI/CLI:
;display_errors = "stderr"
;
; Default
;
display_errors = "stdout"
and have tried

display_errors = On

(no quotes)

but I never get the errors. Don't know why. I have restarted the
httpd server after making the change. Maybe IIS doesn't like it.
It's probably me.

[Jerry Stuckle]

jmDesktop wrote:

On Sep 16, 11:47 am, Curtis <dye...@gmail.c omwrote:

>jmDesktop wrote:

>>Consider:
<?php
echo "start";
class myClass
{
public $connection;
function getme()
{
$this->connection = "test";
return $this->connection;
}
}
$database = new myClass();
$mytest = $database->getme();
echo $mytest;
echo "done";
?>
If I remove the "public $connection" above and have it just as
"$connection, " I get nothing. Nothing loads, not start, done,
nothing, no html tags, no errors, nada. Make me thinks it's an error,
but when I use error_reporting , I get nothing also. If I put the
public modifier back in I get the results. I thought I could make
$connection private and access it from my accessor, getme().
What am I doing wrong? And, why doesn't php complain if I did my
class wrong? Thank you.

As Jerry has explained, it's not "display_er rors on", it's

display_erro rs = On

Also, if you want to make class members private, use the "private"
keyword. Within a class definition, you have to precede property
declarations with a visibility keyword, or "var", which is equivalent
to "public", and exists for compatibility with PHP4. All of this info
is readily available in the PHP docs:

<URL:http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.v isibility.php>

Example:

class Foo {
private $bar;
function getBar() {
return $this->bar;
}

}

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Thanks. I left out the equals, but I have changed it to this:
; To output errors to STDERR with CGI/CLI:
;display_errors = "stderr"
;
; Default
;
display_errors = "stdout"
and have tried

display_errors = On

(no quotes)

but I never get the errors. Don't know why. I have restarted the
httpd server after making the change. Maybe IIS doesn't like it.
It's probably me.

First of all, display_errors= "stdout" is invalid. It is either
display_errors= on or display_errors= off

Second of all, ensure you're changing the correct php.ini. phpinfo()
will show you which php.ini you're actually using, and the status of
display_errors.

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