On May 2, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Craige Leeder wrote:
Hello Philip
First thing first: design patterns are your friend. A good reference
for which, is:
http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/
Second of all. What is the situation in which you are trying to do
this? I can't really think of one where you would do such a thing.
- Craige
Sorry I haven't responded earlier... was away from my computer since
Friday!
First, thanks for the link. Second, because of the way our application
is setup, I am interested in doing this functionality. However,
someone pointed out a very good point - basically abstraction and
classes not needing to know about other classes. So, 'A' knowing about
'C' is "not a good thing" (TM). After thinking twice about it, I won't
take this approach.
However, the reason this came up is because the application is split
up logically between the database layer, security layer, view layer,
logic layer, etc... There is a core class which has generic functions
in it which is called on every request. In this class, other classes
are instantiated and used throughout the app. Kinda like this...
<?php
class Core {
$this->site = new Site ();
}
class Site {
$this->render = new Render ();
}
class Render {
function translate ($template, $arr) {
$content = str_replace (
array_keys($arr),
array_values($arr),
"$template.tpl.php"
);
return $content;
}
function stroke () { }
}
// Somewhere in the app...
$content = $core->site->render->translate('someTemplate', $replace);
?>
Obviously, these are VERY dumbed-down versions of the classes, but
this is the general idea. It all comes down to separation of business
logic from the view from the database, and so on.
Hopefully that's as clear as mud now.
~Philip
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Philip Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi all. I have several classes. Within each class, a new class is
called. Is
there a way to assign a function in a *deeper* class to be called
in the
first class? Example to follow......
<?php
class A {
function __construct () {
$this->b = new B ();
// I want to do the following. This does not work, of course.
$this->doSomething = $this->b->c->doSomething;
}
}
class B {
function __construct () {
$this->c = new C ();
}
}
class C {
function __construct () { }
function doSomething () { echo "¡Hi!"; }
}
$a = new A ();
// Instead of doing this,
$a->b->c->doSomething();
// I want to do this.
$a->doSomething(); // ¡Hi!
?>
Basically, it's just to shorten the line to access a particular
function.
But, is it possible?!
Thanks,
~Philip
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