Thanks to Natalie, Jason and John. Plus anybody who responds after this email. I will have to do some reading up on this now to see if and where i can use this.
Thanks Again Steve At 09:50 AM 4/29/2002, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote: >It's used in object oriented programming (OOP) with classes. $this refers to >the current object. > >So $this->setup() in PHPLib is referring to the setup() function within the >object. > >You can get a better explanation and examples by reading the manual page on >OOP. > >http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php > >---John Holmes... > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Buehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:37 AM >Subject: [PHP] $this-> > > > > I am not an expert at PHP and have been learning it through questions, > > books, online help, etc.... I guess like most people. :) Anyway, I see a > > lot of scripts that use $this->something and was wondering if this was >just > > another variable or if the "->" has any special meaning. One script from > > the PHPLIB (menu.inc) has this: > > $this->setup(); > > and there are no other times in that .inc file that lists that. The only > > other thing that comes close is just the "funtion setup()". This is not > > the only program that I see this in and am just wondering about it and > > trying to see if it is something that I should be using in my scripts. >The > > only time that I use this is when getting results from a mysql query like >this: > > $result=mysql_query("SELECT $team from games where game_id = '$game_id'"); > > while (($row = mysql_fetch_object($result))){ > > $input = $row->$team; > > > > Hopefully somebody can explain this to me. > > > > Thanks in Advance > > Steve > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
