Right I've read the manual on this and all that so hopefully you fine people
can help.
I have an abstract class with three children. The abstract is ForumObject
and the three children are Thread, Category and Post and each have their own
table so I wrote the following:
abstract class ForumObject
{
static private $table;
static function getObjectIds ($field, $value)
{
$query = "SELECT id FROM {self::$table} WHERE $field = '$value'";
$object_ids = mysql_fetch_array();
return $object_ids;
}
}
class Category extends ForumObject
{
static private $table = "categories";
}
That's just got the important bits for the sake of your eyes but basically
the problem I'm having is calling
Category::getObjectIds ($whatever, $whatever2);
Seems to think that it's referring to ForumObject::$table rather than
Category::$table?
I looked into it and there seems to be something you can do with
get_called_class() but unfortunately I'm stuck with 5.2.9 at the moment and
that is new to 5.3.
Any ideas? Perhaps there is a different way I could implement the classes -
I would rather not have getObjectIds repeated three times!
Thanks in advance,
--
Luke Slater
http://dinosaur-os.com/
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