Re: $this->

Thanks to Natalie, Jason and John. Plus anybody who responds after this email. I will have to do some reading up on this now to see if and where i can use this. Thanks Again Steve At 09:50 AM 4/29/2002, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote:

It's used in object oriented programming (OOP) with classes. $this refers to the current object. So $this->setup() in PHPLib is referring to the setup() function within the object. You can get a better explanation and examples by reading the manual page on OOP. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Buehler" <steve@vespro.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: [PHP] $this-> I am not an expert at PHP and have been learning it through questions, books, online help, etc.... I guess like most people. :) Anyway, I see a lot of scripts that use $this->something and was wondering if this was just another variable or if the "->" has any special meaning. One script from the PHPLIB (menu.inc) has this: $this->setup(); and there are no other times in that .inc file that lists that. The only other thing that comes close is just the "funtion setup()". This is not the only program that I see this in and am just wondering about it and trying to see if it is something that I should be using in my scripts. The only time that I use this is when getting results from a mysql query like this: $result=mysql_query("SELECT $team from games where game_id = '$game_id'"); while (($row = mysql_fetch_object($result))){ $input = $row->$team; Hopefully somebody can explain this to me. Thanks in Advance Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php