Re: [PHP] Info into Class

The thing about PHP classes is that there are not many rules. It is
usually suggested, as a matter of good practice to use get and set
functions for your variables in classes in any language. A lot of
people my think this is a bunch of extra work, but let's say you are
keeping track of customers, and you are storing their phone number. If
you write get/set functions for that variable, if later on you decide
that you really need to be validating the phone numbers format, or
getting a particular format out of the class you can easily add that
code right in the get/set function and then that process only has to
happen in one place, keeping your code nice and clean.

greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard Samuel [mailto:gsam@trini0.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:45 AM
To: php-gen
Subject: [PHP] Info into Class

Are there any rules as to how information from outside a class can be
moved into it.
What Ive been doing so far is
1. Through the constructor
2. defining a constant
3. Create a method whose sole purpose is to move data from the outside
into the class.
i.e.
<?php
class foo ()
{
......
function outside_data($bar)
{
$this->bar = $bar;
}
......
}

// class constructor here
.......
$class->outside_data($php);

?>

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