No problem mate :)
As a general rule, it seems that PHP just copied Java's OOP model - and
outside of the quirks in the way it works internally - it's a pretty damn
good implementation of object orientation. THe only issue I have with it is
that it's not possible to lose the procedural bootstrapper :(
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM, phphelp -- kbk <phphelp@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Thanks, guys, for the discussion. This is nothing compelling for me, just
> fooling around with the model. My first OOP language many-a-year ago had
> this ability. "Parent" designated containment, not (as I believe, too, is
> more "correct") inheritance hierarchy, like PHP. I and have never had the
> need to call a "containing" function in PHP, but I was exploring the best
> way to accomplish a new task the other day, and that kind of architecture
> seemed like a possibility.
>
> In fact, probably just a bad idea.
>
> (I see so much of that in this list: "I need to..." followed by a
> description of some bizarre construct. I want to scream "No! You have
> painted yourself into a corner! Test your assumptions, or go back 5 steps
> and start over.")
>
> Thanks again....
>
> Ken
>
>
> On May 24, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote:
>
> That's containment, not inheritence, must have misread the email. Oops :)
>>
>> The "easiest" way to do this would be something like:
>>
>> class contrived {
>> private $parent;
>> private $otherparent;
>>
>> public function __call($func, $params) {
>> if(is_callable(array($this->parent, $func))
>> call_user_func_array(array($this->parent, $func), $params)
>> elseif(is_callable(array($this->otherParent, $func))
>> call_user_func_array(array($this->otherparent, $func), $params)
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> This is the most "elegant" way to accomplish the same thing, but it makes
>> some assumptions, like you're willing to chain if-elseif's together (or
>> store all contained instances in an array) and that you don't ever have
>> overlapping method names (ie contrived.foo and parent.foo both exist).
>> Also, it's really, really obnoxiously slow. __call() is hardly fast and
>> call_user_func_array is no different.
>>
>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Eddie Drapkin wrote:
>> You can call methods from a classes's parents like so
>> class foo {
>>
>> protected method bar() {
>> echo "in foo!";
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> class foobar extends foo {
>>
>> public function bar() {
>> parent::bar();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> $fb = new foobar();
>> $fb->bar(); will output "in foo!";
>>
>>
>> wrong way round.. he's asking for:
>>
>> // note no extends
>> class foobar {
>>
>> public function bar() {
>> $this->foo = new Foo();
>> $this->foo->bar();
>> }
>>
>> public function poo() {
>> echo "call me if you can";
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> // and the impossible
>> class foo {
>>
>> public method bar() {
>> foobar->poo(); // call the containing class
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> in a dom or as3 or suchlike this would be
>>
>> this.parent.poo();
>>
>> but we have not this->parent
>>
>> note: note parent::poo() which is effectively super.poo() <lol>
>>
>> so he can only inject the container/parent
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> class foobar {
>>
>> private $foo;
>>
>> public function bar() {
>> $this->foo = new Foo( $this );
>> $this->foo->bar();
>> }
>>
>> public function poo() {
>> echo "call me if you can";
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> // and the Possible
>> class foo {
>>
>> private $parent;
>>
>> public function __construct( $parent ) {
>> $this->parent = $parent;
>> }
>>
>> public method bar() {
>> $this->parent->poo(); // call the containing class method poo
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>
