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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:39:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Method/Function chaining?
From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber)

Hello Dan,

  The answer that you are looking for can be found on the Zend site:

  http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/engine2-php5-changes.php#Heading13


-- 
Best regards,
 Jason                            mailto:jason@ionzoft.com

Friday, August 13, 2004, 6:59:44 PM, you wrote:

DO> Hello. 
 
DO> Excuse my ignorance on this, but I can't seem to find the answer I'm
DO> looking for online... Will PHP5 be able to do "chaining" as some other
DO> languages are able to do? 
 
DO> In other words... 
DO> ------------------------------ 
DO> <?php 
 
DO> class A 
DO> { 
DO>     function A() { print "made an A...<br>\n"; } 
DO>     function getB() { return new B(); } 
DO> } 
 
DO> class B 
DO> { 
DO>     function B() { print "made a B...<br>\n"; } 
DO>     function shout() { print "hey!!"; } 
DO> } 
 
DO> $a = &new A(); 
 
$a->>getB()->shout(); 
 
?>> 
DO> ---------------------------- 
 
DO> This kind of polymorphism is something I'm used to, and I'm hoping it
DO> won't result in a parse error in PHP5. =) 
 
DO> --  
DO> Dan Ostrowski