Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 07/25/07 01:58

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman wrote:

>>> If you want to "reset" the object, then you separate that out into its
>>> own method and call it from the constructor -- similar to what you've
>>> done with the Connect() method.
>>
>> It ain't good form to write redundant code.
>> It's wasteful, inefficient, and is abhorrent to good OOP architecture.
>> Indeed - the most powerful reason for using OOP is to be able to write
>> a process once, and then to use it over and over and over, and in a
>> variety of creative ways.
>>
>> Besides and again... my focus here is on not wasting resources
>> unnecessarily.
>
> Read what he said. There is no redundant code.

All the code I need to initialize and reinitialize my class is in the
constructor.

class baseclass {
var $Database;
var $ErrorMessage;
var $RecordSet;
function bvckvs_baseclass(){
$this->RecordSet = array();
$this->Database = new bvckvs_database();
$this->ErrorMessage = $this->Database->ErrorMessage;
return true;
}
}

If I were to write a "reinit()" it would do exactly the same thing.
How is that not redundant?

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