Question

Hmmm,not sure how to do this

i have a public variable

public $meta;

I’m calling the method in my application like this

$auth->meta_data('rental_access');

Now I’m curious is to how I can get the information from it. How can I access the $meta variable information based on the switch logic from the method?

In my application I want to use the information from the $meta variable to make some more logic statements hmmm something like

if ($auth->meta-data('rental_access') == 1) { //or maybe have it look for a true/false thing
    //do this
} else {
    // then do this
}

Answer 1

I would avoid combining that explicitely. Rather use the tried and proven fluent interface approach. You simply make each method return $this:

function meta_data($item) {
    ...

    return $this;
}

This allows you to write:

if ($auth->meta_data("rental_access")->meta == 2) {

It’s usually used for calling multiple functions in a chains. But this likewise acceptable.

Obviously this is only applicable to procedures which don’t already return a result of their own.