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[Fark_Maniac]

I've seen this in plenty of people's example code, but can only guestimate it relatest to arrays. I've always thought the best way was $array['Field1'] ... $array['otherfield']

can someone lay out the differences...benifits..etc?

I appreciate it

 

[deuce868]

Do you mean classes?

Like

$test = new Object();
$test->someFunction($param1, $param2);

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.classobj.php

 

[Fark_Maniac]

The lightbulb has been lit. I'm pretty sure that's what that is...

was also reading an article and stumbled upon this:
http://www.hardened-php.org/documentation.19.html (section 2.1 has linked lists...I've had data structures for c++...I see where this is heading)

 

[Tweakin]

I've seen this in plenty of people's example code, but can only guestimate it relatest to arrays. I've always thought the best way was $array['Field1'] ... $array['otherfield']

can someone lay out the differences...benifits..etc?

I appreciate it

You can do more then 'guestimate', you can read the manual section on arrays . PHP has a very nice online manual with answers to these types of questions... good search functionality too.

 

[maw]

I've seen this in plenty of people's example code, but can only guestimate it relatest to arrays. I've always thought the best way was $array['Field1'] ... $array['otherfield']

can someone lay out the differences...benifits..etc?

I appreciate it

it's used for classes and objects. for example, to go through a recordset using objects instead of arrays.

Using arrays
while ($record = mysql_fetch_array($rs)
{
 echo($record['field1'] . ", " . $record['field2'])
}

using objects
while ($record = mysql_fetch_object($rs)
{
  echo ($record->field1 . ", " . $record->field2);
}

 

[Fark_Maniac]

maw...that made the most sense...more so than the manual and all the google searches...not sure why. I use a lot of mysql queries and this is the sort of thing that I'd use these things.