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Posted by nephish on 06/18/49 11:57
Slant wrote:
> Fair enough. I did not mean to be unclear. I actually did not use the
> $this-> specifier BECAUSE I did not want to be able to access this
> array anywhere but within the construct. Not defining a variable with
> $this-> attached disallows other methods within the class from
> accessing it, does it not? It certainly does not work anyway. Maybe
> I'm missing something.
>
> To your question though, nephish. I don't see a problem with what you
> are doing. the Session variable, after all, is just another variable.
> You can store many things in variables, as you obviously know. What
> you're suggesting would work most efficiently if a single value was
> returned from the object that the session variable is being assigned
> to. For example:
>
>
> $frank = new Person;
> $_SESSION['auth'] = $frank->validate('frank');
>
> class frank {
> function validate($name) {
> if ($name == auth (whatever method you choose to use for
> authorization)) {
> return true;
> } else {
> return false;
> }
> }
> }
>
> if ($_SESSION['auth'] == true) {
> echo "Yea! Fun to ensue!";
> }
>
>
> I'd probably not place the contents of the class directly into the
> Session variable, but instead call the object to do whatever you want,
> then return the data in an instance variable and assign THAT to the
> Session variable. How does that sound?
>
>
> $frank = new Person;
> $frank->validate('frank');
> $_SESSION['auth'] = $frank->authorized;
>
> class frank {
> function validate($name) {
> if ($name == authorized (whatever method you choose to use for
> authorization)) {
> $this->authorized = true;
> } else {
> $this->authorized = false;
> }
> }
> }
>
> if ($_SESSION['auth'] == true) {
> echo "Yea! Fun to ensue!";
> }
>
>
> Kimmo Laine wrote:
> > "Slant" <rcross@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1157476551.134715.190600@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > > I see no reason why this should not work. In a recent post here in
> > > this same group, I posted a very similar example for a Database
> > > instantiation class:
> > >
> > > function __construct() {
> > >
> > > $db['host'] = "localhost";
> > > $db['user'] = "root";
> > > $db['pass'] = "";
> > > $db['name'] = "pbtportal";
> > >
> > > $link = mysql_connect($db['host'],$db['user'],$db['pass']);
> > > mysql_select_db($db['name'],$link);
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > Works like a charm! In this case, I did not declair the variable "$db"
> > > but probably should have.
> >
> > IMHO, those aren't class members, the $db elements. You should be using the
> > $this pointer: $this->db[...]. Now they're only visible inside the scope of
> > the __construct method. This is't exactly the same thing that nephish was
> > asking...
> >
> > Still, the way nephish was doing it works fine, your example just doesn't
> > demonstrate it very well.
> >
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ok, i get you, yeah, i think thats cleaner too.
thanks for your time.
nephish
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