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Posted by Ryan White on 02/16/06 09:33
Hi all
Just a quickie, in case it's been covered, like a million times or
something.
I'm self taught, and thought I was being pretty clever when building a
"messaging" class.
The idea was to abstract "html email", "text email" and "sms message" up a
layer into a "message"
To get a message started, I call on something like this:
$msg = new Message("sms");
Message (which re-assigns the $this variable) then looks something like
this:
class Message{
var $message_hash;
var $message_path;//this can be changed, in case stuff is moved in future...
function ryan_Message($type=""){//starts the whole thing
switch($type){
case "html"://this means an html email
include_once("HtmlMessage.php");
$this = new HtmlMessage();
break;
case "text"://this means a text mail
include_once("TextMessage.php");
$this = new TextMessage();
break;
case "sms"://this means an sms message
include_once("SmsMessage.php");
$this = new SmsMessage();
break;
}// end switch
}// end function
}// end class
Each class has methods that are named the same, but act a little
differently, so, basically, I can use the same set of commands to compose a
message and send it, regardless of what type of message it is.
Things work fantastically under php4, but I know that when I swap over to
php5, it's going to throw a hissy fit, because reassigning $this is not
allowed.
Aside from going around the Message class, and just starting messages of a
particular type from scratch:
Is there some sort of cunning retro-fit I could do to the Message class, so
I don't have to trawl through thousands of lines of code?
Any help much appreciated
Thanks
Ryan
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