Thank a lot for pointing me to this, as you wrote u are right, haven't started yet with oo so of course i wasn't able to understand what was this all about. thanks again Nick On May 2, 2010, at 4:52 PM, viraj wrote: > hi nick, > :: is what we call 'scope resolution operator', $this is your 'current scope'. > > i guess you better read > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php.. all sections :)) > > > ~viraj > > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Nick Balestra <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am trying to understand how the joomla framework works, i see an heavy usage of " :: " in its code, here an example: >> >> function edit () >> { >> JRequest::setVar('view, 'single'); >> $this ->display(); >> } >> >> >> from my really basic php understanding in the function edit i call a function setVar() and i pass the paramter 'view' and 'single' in it then the output ($this) is passed to the display() function. >> >> My question is what does :: means? an more precisely referring to the example: JRequest::setVar('view, 'single'); how do you read it and how do you manage it? >> >> Cheers, Nick >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
