Calling An Instantiated Object's Methods From Another Method [php]

Is that possible?


Would I have the instantiated object as an argument to to method I need it in, or is there a way of accessing it without that?


Ta.

I could make the second object inherit the properties of the first, but surely there is a better way of doing this?

[Miserableman]

I don't know php too well, but do you mean:

a) calling one method in class X from another method in class X, or

b) calling a method in class X from a method in class Y?


(a) is entirely possible, (b) is possible if the method in X is public and Y can see that particular instance of X.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

The second one.


I've just gone with inheritance, turned out to be more useful for me than I had originally thought.

[Miserableman]

Would it not be something along the lines of:

Cat whiskers = new Cat();
whiskers.meow();

I am calling the meow function in the whiskers object of class Cat. Where I call it from is not important, so long as I am allowed to create a Cat.

[MT]

Originally posted by Miserableman
Would it not be something along the lines of:

Cat whiskers = new Cat();
whiskers.meow();

I am calling the meow function in the whiskers object of class Cat. Where I call it from is not important, so long as I am allowed to create a Cat.

I have a cat!

[grkn]

You can hand over the pointer to the instantiated class to the method of another class.

Example:

(May be wrong, haven't bothered with php and classes for some time now)

// Class Definitions

class class_a {

function method_a($var_a){
[...]
}
}

class class_b {

function method_b($class_pointer_a, $var_c){
$blahblah = $class_pointer_a->method_a($var_c);
[...]
return;
}
}


// Instantiating classes

$class_pointer_a = new class_a();
$class_pointer_b = new class_b();


// Usage

$class_pointer_b->method_b($class_pointer_a, $var_c);

[MT]

why wouldnt you just call $class_pointer_a->method_a($var_c)

[laney]

class A {
  function hello() {
    echo 'hello';
  }
}

a::hello();

or am i way off the mark?!

[dave20]

my interpretation of your question is something like this:

class classa {
 function somemethod_a()
 {
  echo "blah";
 }
}

class classb {
 function somemethod_b()
 {
  classa::somemethod_a();
 }
}

however, this won't work at all if (a) in somemethod_a(), you have any references to class variables or use $this at all.

have a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword...ekudotayim.php for some more information.