Help encapsulating the output of several functions into a public variale in a class.

Monkee_Of_Evil

I'm writing a search class, and it all works fine except for when I try to instanciate the class on the search result page. The problem is that when i perform a search the tables from the various output statements print where i instanciate instead of where I call the variable i want to use as a container.

Here is the phps file for the class:
http://elite-labs.yi.org/globe/backend/class_search.phps

Here is the code from the file where it is called

// grab posted variable
$searchFor = $_REQUEST['searchFor'];
$searchType = $_REQUEST['searchBy'];
$searchSub = $_REQUEST['subSearch'];
$title = " Search";		// put your page title here...

//require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "../scripts/database.php";
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/scripts/common.php');
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/backend/connect_db.inc.php'); // phase out.. replace w/ database class
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/backend/class_search.php');

startDocument(); // print website headers...
if ($searchSub)
	{
  			$search = new search($searchFor,$searchType); // instanciate our search object. 
	}
?>

// some basic header stuff

<?  if($searchSub)
	{
	    echo "Search Results for:
	 	<span style=\"font-size:24px\"> " . $searchFor . ", " . search->numRows  . " results) 
		 </span></span></p>";
         } 
	 else
        	 {
			 echo "Catalog Search )";
 } ?>
// removed  code that would output a navigation bar w/ some image roll-overs.

<? 
 echo $search->mySearch; // this is where i try to call the variable which has all the  search results from the class.
?>

I'm not sure what i'm doing here...but it's probably something stupid... lol

bpat1434

lol... just cuz it's funny... anyone else notice the link that he posted is this:

http://elite-labs.yi.org/globe/back...ass_search.phps

I don't know what you're searching, but stay away from me!!

J/k.

It seems you're using the class wrong. Would you want to use something like:

$search = new search();

$search->search($searchFor, $searchType); // this will do an automatic print
$results = $search->search($searchFor, $searchType); // this will put them in variable if return is used

here's things I see:
-- Nothing is returned, it's all outputted directly
-- You have 2 functions that are the same, and they fire automatically when the class is called

What you need to do is in the areas of OutputAlternatingRows() you need to RETURN the results, not just echo. If youecho, they'll be output, if you return, they'll go in to the $mySearch variable.

Hope that helps.

~Brett