Posted by amygdala on 04/13/07 02:36

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> schreef in bericht
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> amygdala wrote:

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>
> One other thing - the class members shouldn't be static. Static members
> are shared by all objects of the class. So if you have two objects of
> this class and change it in one, both will change.
>
> Non-static data members are unique to each instantiation of the class.

Aaah yes of course. Silly me. Good point. I overlooked that one.

But would it be save to say that a derived class of DB_Table such as User
_could_ have a static $fields variable (for instance when I wont be
declaring it in the parent class first), since every User instance would
have the same table fields?

Thanks again Jerry et al.

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