RE: [PHP4BETA] A quick clarification question about PHP4...

> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stevenson [mailto:scott@maxify.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:58 AM > To: php4beta@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] A quick clarification question about PHP4... > > Oh, okay. I see. So even though this works in PHP3... > > class myClass { > function myClass($name) { > $this->myVar = "Hello, $name!"; > } > } > > >>$name = "Scott"; > $myInstance = new myClass($name); > echo $myInstance->myVar; > > ...it does not/will not work in PHP4? > > If so, that sucks. You've got the wrong idea; its not that bad! What you can't do in php4 is: class myClass { $this->myVar = "Hello, $GLOBALNAME!"; function myClass($name) { ... } } because the value of "Hello, $GLOBALNAME!" isn't known at parse time. As also you can do function x($a="a") { to set a default parameter, you can't do function x($a=$DEFAULTA) { because the value of $DEFAULTA is not know at compile time. [or at least you can and many people do at the moment, but they'll have to check and re-write all their code before they move to php4] As Jim so rightly says, if he knew what the default value was going to be he probably wouldn't need to pass it as a parameter.