Posted by Tony Marston on 06/14/06 08:21

What you are describing is not a subclass but a contained object. A subclass
inherits from a superclass whereas you are instantiating an object from
within another object. There is a difference.

What you want is this...

$oForm->getTextBoxByID->getOuterHTML("Number");

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Tony Marston
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"Ramon" <itsramon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I'm new to OOP in PHP and I have this question:
>
> I have a class called "Form", which contains a collection of classes
> (objects) called "Textbox".
> Now I need to call the Textbox class's method "getOuterHTML()".
>
> In Visual Basic, you should do it like this:
> oForm.getTextBoxByID("Number").getOuterHTML()
>
> In PHP I tried this: $oForm->getTextBoxByID("Number")->getOuterHTML();
> But that doesn't work...
>
> Is there a way to do this in one statement? (I use PHP4).
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Ramon.
>

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