Re: learning classes not sure how to do this correctly

macha@kingdomsend.com wrote: > just starting to get used to classes, trying to figure out what i am > doing wrong, i know its going to be something stupid on my part, > probably really shouldn't be using a if statement or something heh > > just doing a basic email verification to make sure its looks like email > addy > > so i take the post to a var > > PHP Code: > $email_address = $_POST['email_address']; > > > run it through this function in my class > > PHP Code: > function check_email($address){ > if (ereg('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$', > $address)) please consider using the preg_*() functions instead of the posix based regexp funcs; read here to get a feel of why the preg_*() funcs are 'better': http://php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php also you could shorten the function a little like so; function check_email($address) { return (boolean) ereg('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$',$address); } > return true; > else > return false; > } > > > and then if true i want it to continue on with the script or error out > and quit back to the other page and display the error. so i have tried > something like this and stuff similar but get a error > Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in $keclass is not an object. you need to do something like this before you use $keclass (where 'YourClass' is the name of your class): $keclass = new YourClass; > > PHP Code: > if (!$keclass->check_email($email_address)) { > $keclass->seterr(555); > include('test.php'); > exit(); > } > > $keclass->seterr(000); > include('test.php'); > exit(); > > > the seterr is just a simple thing that takes the number and puts in a > session var for latter display... >