Question

Thanks in advance for help and direction. I am finally making the switch from linear programming to OOP. I am working on my first class ever and I could use a little direction. My first class is a gallery with the following properties

class Gallery
    {
        //Gallery Name
        public $galleryID;
        public $galleryName;

        //Client Name
        public $clientName;

        //Gallery Options
        public $bg_color;
        public $albumAgreement;
        public $maxChanges;
        public $sharing_on;

        //Revisions
        public $revisions;
}

My out put thus looks like:

Gallery Object
(
    [galleryID] => 
    [galleryName] => 
    [clientName] => 
    [bg_color] => 
    [albumAgreement] => 
    [maxChanges] => 
    [sharing_on] => 
    [revisions] => 
)

My next step is I would like to make ‘revisions’ an object as well so that my output would look like

Gallery Object
(
    [galleryID] => 
    [galleryName] => 
    [clientName] => 
    [bg_color] => 
    [albumAgreement] => 
    [maxChanges] => 
    [sharing_on] => 
    [revisions] => Revisions Object (
        [revisionID] =>
        [revisionName] =>
    )
)

What direction do I go for something like this and what might the class look like?

Thanks

Answer 1

The good thing is PHP is dynamically typed, so your code remains pretty much the same. When you initialize revisions, just initialize it to be an instance of Revisions object, like this

$gallery = new Gallery();
$gallery->revisions = new Revisions()  // assuming you have defined the Revisions class

As for what the class should look like, based on your var_dump, something like this:

class Revisions {
  public $revisionID;
  public $revisionName;

  public function __construct($id, $name) {
     $this->revisionID = $id;
     $this->revisionName = $name;
  }

  // if required, define a default constructor as well that does not take any parameters

}

Since what revisions does is not entirely clear from your question, you might want to make a Revision object instead of Revisions (not the plural), and then have $gallery->revisions be an array of Revision.