I would like to create a property which is a class in and of itself and add other methods to it within the "parent" class MyName
, so that I would be able to do something like
$myname = new MyName();
$myname->event->post($params);
I've tried the following, but it doesn't work:
class MyName {
public function __construct() {
$this->event = new stdClass();
$this->event->post = function($params) {
print_r($params);
};
}
}
$x = new MyName();
$x->event->post(array(1, 2, 3));
Which simply ends up flagging the following fatal error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::post() in C:\xampp\htdocs\Arkwayecreation\primepromotions\api\classes\FacebookWrapper.php on line 25
You could use __call
to access an internal array of closures, perhaps something like this:
class MyName {
public function __construct() {
$this->event = new EventObj();
$this->event->post = function($params) {
print_r($params);
};
}
}
class EventObj {
private $events = array();
public function __set($key, $val) {
$this->events[$key] = $val;
}
public function __call($func, $params) {
if (isset($this->events[$func])) {
call_user_func_array($this->events[$func], $params);
}
}
}
$x = new MyName();
$x->event->post(array(1, 2, 3));
Output:
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
)
You can't do that in PHP.
You can either create another class and then initialize it in the main class and access it through a variable or you can simulate method chaining if you want to keep the code all inside one object. This article http://www.talkphp.com/advanced-php-programming/1163-php5-method-chaining.html shows one way of method chaining in PHP.
You can do this way:
class MyName extends stdClass{
or
class MyName {
public function getStdClass(){
return new StdClass();
}
And you can call:
$test = new MyName();
$test->someStdClassMethod();
or
$test = new MyName();
$test2 = $test->getStdClass();
$test2->someStdClassMethod();
Respective.