Variables

[kofman2155]

I'm not used to not initializing variables. I'm currently trying to build a OOP calendar script as practice. Is the following valid?

private $name;

public $name;

also can you forcefully define the variable type?

string private name

I'm having a lot of trouble with syntax so I appoligize. I've tried going through php.net and while it is nice it's not very detailed and it's hard to find answers sometimes.

The reason for this question is the following:

class Calendar
{
	private $name;
	private $owner;
	private $public;

function __construct()
{
	load_classes();

	set_name('default');
	set_owner('none');
	set_public(true);
}

function __construct($name_temp, $owner_temp, $public_temp) 
{		
	load_classes();

	set_name($name_temp);
	set_owner($owner_temp);
	set_public($public_temp);
}
}

That is simply an example but it might help for you (the reader) to understand what I'm trying to do and why.

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I'm aware that PHP doesn't define it's types, but say you make 2 constructors both take in a single variable, one being a string the other being an int, how would PHP solve this?

[thorpe]

Im not exactly sure I see your question in this post, you cannot have two constructors in one class.

[kofman2155]

Yea I figured out the answer to that question. You see I was attempting to do a constructor overload which basically would allow for you to do the following:

$instance1 = new Month(1);
$instance2 = new Month('Feb');
$instance3 = new Month('February');
$instance3 = new Calendar(2006);
$instance4 = new Calendar('Feb', 11, 2006);

The answer I found to this was func_num_args with if/else (or switch statement) basically figuring out the input.

I really don't like it cause of having to spend a good 10 lines with just condition checking.