Referencing objects?

[Schmidty]

Fairly new to OOP and PHP5.
My question;

Maybe I am not thinking about this the right way? How do I reference a
variable or object(?) from one function to another in a class? Or how
do I pass the variable from one function or method to another? Am I
doing this right in the example below? How would I pass a variable from
one function to another?

Example ================================================== ========

class NAME {
public $name;
public $unknown;
public $value;
function __construct($value) {
$this->setName($this->value);
}

function setName($value) {
$this->name = $value;
}

function getName() {
return $this->name;
}

function nameKid($unknown) {
$this->setName($unkown);
}
} // end class
$boy = new NAME("Joe");
$boy->getName();

Joe

END EXAMPLE ================================================== ====
Thanks,
Schmidty

[Colin McKinnon]

Schmidty wrote:

Fairly new to OOP and PHP5.

<snip>

>
Example ================================================== ========

class NAME {
public $name;
public $unknown;
public $value;
function __construct($value) {
$this->setName($this->value);

no - I guess you want to assign the value in the parameter using the setName
method...
$this->setName($value);

}

function setName($value) {
$this->name = $value;

Yup - just like that

}

function getName() {
return $this->name;
}

function nameKid($unknown) {
$this->setName($unkown);

erm, not sure what this is trying to (even without the typo).

Looks like your nearly there.

HTH

C.

[Schmidty]

Sorry about the typo, it should be '$unknown'. Thanks for the help!! :)
Schmidty
Colin McKinnon wrote:

Schmidty wrote:

Fairly new to OOP and PHP5.

<snip>

Example ================================================== ========

class NAME {
public $name;
public $unknown;
public $value;
function __construct($value) {
$this->setName($this->value);

no - I guess you want to assign the value in the parameter using the setName
method...
$this->setName($value);

}

function setName($value) {
$this->name = $value;

Yup - just like that

}

function getName() {
return $this->name;
}

function nameKid($unknown) {
$this->setName($unkown);

erm, not sure what this is trying to (even without the typo).

Looks like your nearly there.

HTH

C.