Question

I am just getting into OOP PHP but have got a little stuck.

Basically i want to create a function to create the objects, the issue is i can’t then access the objects outside of the function:

$website0 = new website(0,'test','NameTest');
echo $website0 ->getProperty('name');

This works. However:

createWebsitesFromDatabase();
echo $website0 ->getProperty('name');

function createWebsitesFromDatabase() {
    $website0 = new website (0,'test','NameTest');
}

does not work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

function createWebsitesFromDatabase() {
   global $website0; // here is the trick
   $website0 = new website (0,'test','NameTest');
}

createWebsitesFromDatabase();    
echo $website0 ->getProperty('name');