The more I have thought about it, the first solution really is the best
solution. I agree.
On 10 Oct 2011, at 8:46, Justin Giboney wrote:
> Wade,
>
> I am trying to understand better why you don't like your first option
> (passing in the object) as this is the object-oriented way of doing things.
> It seems like the optimal solution as all you are doing is reading a
> variable. I am guessing due to the referencing that you are trying to do
> more than this. In these situations I often times use my factory or a
> controller specific to Apple to house a list of all of the Apples. As the
> factory or controller is a singleton object, it is easy to reference that
> object and get the list of Apples (see example below).
>
> A separate thought is making Orange a subclass of Apple. I am guessing this
> won't work, but again, it fits the description provided so far.
>
>
> class Orange {
> public function dog($id) {
> $the_farm = new Apple_Farm(); // will return same object every
> time
> echo $the_farm->get_apple($id)->cat;
> }
> }
>
> class Apple_Farm {
> // singleton stuff - http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.patterns.php
> private $list_of_apples = array();
> public function get_apple($id) {
> foreach ($list_of_apples as $apple) {
> if ($apple->id == $id) {
> return $apple;
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> Justin Scott Giboney
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The value does need to be able to be changed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2011, at 23:37, Kevin Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It depends on the usage of your object's properties. If $cat is not going
>> to
>>> be changing you can just make it a constant of the Apple class:
>>>
>>> <?php
>>>
>>> class Apple {
>>> const cat = "I'm a cat"; // HAS to be defined since it is a const
>>>
>>> public function __construct () {
>>> $orange = new Orange();
>>> $orange->dog();
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> $apple = new Apple();
>>>
>>> class Orange {
>>> public function dog () {
>>> echo Apple::cat;
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> The downside to this is where it is a constant you cannot change the
>> value
>>> dynamically.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Steve Meyers <[email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/8/11 9:03 AM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>>>>> That gets me the simplicity I want insider of dog(), but adds
>>>>> complexity ouside of dog each time I have to call it and complicates
>>>>> things with other variables I have to pass in. Any way to pass it in
>>>>> automatically? I'm thinking of __set and overloading concepts but
>>>>> haven't been able to come up with a solution.
>>>>
>>>> You can use $GLOBALS or global, but that's certainly not ideal. Not
>>>> that I've never done it before....
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
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