On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:55, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> I've been using PHP for about 6 months and I'm ok with it but I'm now
> starting to get into more advanced stuff and inheriting project that
> other people have coded.  One of the major stumpers I have is any line
> of code that contains:
> 
> $this->
> 
> What does this do?  I know it has something to do with classes but can't
> quite get my head around it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff

It refers to the object upon which the class method was called. So
outside of the class you might have:

    $foo = new FooClass();
    $foo->doSomething();

then inside the class you might have the following:

class FooClass
{
    function doSomething()
    {
        $this->doSomethingElse();
    }

    function doSomethingElse()
    {
        $foo = 1;

        return (++$foo === $foo++);  //  ;)
    }
}

Cheers,
Rob.
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