On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Leam Hall <leamh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OOP Newbie question as I convert a crufty program to OOP > > Class Person sets up various properties of a person. Classes B, C, and D > extend A in various ways for different roles people do. > > What I ran into last night was trying to use a function outside of the > classes to instantiate objects. For example: > > Function Z instantiates 3 objects of class B, one each object of class C. > > Function Y instantiates one instance of class D and then runs Function Z 3 > times, for a total of 16 objects. > > Function X creates one object of Class D and then calls Function 7 3 times. > > What I don't know, and couldn't clearly explain on ##php last night, is > how to have Functions X, Y, and Z be able to create objects from classes B, > C, and D. > > Any help, or good pointers to tutorials? Should I even be using functions? > The goal is to create groups of objects based off group membership > guidelines. > > If you're well and truly bored, the full code is at: > > https://github.com/LeamHall/**LHTraveller_Mercenary_**Generator<https://github.com/LeamHall/LHTraveller_Mercenary_Generator> > > Not so bored, so only took a quick look. It seems like you're calling functions to generate objects but not returning those objects or storing them in a global array anywhere? You are absolutely right to be using objects for this stuff. There's not really any difference between using a function to instantiate objects and using a function to instantiate any other variable. You have to return (or otherwise store) the instantiated variables if you want them to be available outside the function scope.
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