Neater coding

[bananaman]

Is there a way I can make this type of code neater?

$thing = new whatever ();

$thing->doStuff (5, 100);
$thing->anotherThing (200, 200);
$thing->doThis (300, 300);
$thing->doThis (100, 300);
$thing->doThis (200, 200);
$thing->doThis (200, 210);
$thing->anotherThing (200, 200);
$thing->doThis (200, 220);
// etc. etc.

Some languages have the construct "with", so you can so something like this:

$thing = new whatever ();

with ( $thing ) {
    doStuff (5, 100);
    anotherThing (200, 200);
    doThis (300, 300);
    doThis (100, 300);
    doThis (200, 200);
    doThis (200, 210);
    anotherThing (200, 200);
    doThis (200, 220);
    // etc. etc.
}

which is much neater. Is there anyway to do this type of thing with PHP?

[drawmack]

I don't know about the with construct but if you use globals or constants instead of those numbers your code will be much more readable.

I mean 200 means nothing but WINDOW_SIZE_SM does. It also helps with consitency in large apps.

[bananaman]

Thanks for the response drawmack.

Yep, constants are nice. But that's not actually the issue I was referring too.

Sometimes in code I find I need to perform mulitple operations on a single instance of an object. That's what I'd like to make neater.

[drawmack]

you can check the manual at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ and search around to see if php has a similar function.

[bananaman]

Nobody any insight into this? I have to put up with this?:

$thing->
$thing->
$thing->
$thing->
$thing->
$thing->
//etc etc.