Hi, The first argument of the function is an object ($request) of class (osapiRequest). I hope that you get it. Thanks & Regards Udayakumar Sarangapani Team Lead - PHP CompIndia Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Chennai. "Science is nothing but logic..." ________________________________ From: sravani98_gogineni <sravani98_gogineni@xxxxxxxxx> To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009 9:12:18 AM Subject: function in php Please any one tell me the meaning of this. public function add(osapiRequest $request, $key = null) normally we will use variable names,here instead of variable it is something like osapirequest $request was there. thanks in advance. See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]