OOP programming question

[marquis820]

I have a question about passing variables to a method. Let say I have this example

class example
{

    var var1;
    var var2;
    var counter;


    function method1($m1,$m2) 
     {

             $this->var1 = $m1;
             $this->var2 = $m2;

           //
           encapuslatedMethod1($this->var1);
           printf("Var1 was %d\n",$this->var1);

           encapsulatedMethod2($this->var2);
           print("Var2 was %d\n",$this->var2);

   }


  function encapsulatedMethod1($m1) 
  {

            $this->var1 = $m1;

             $counter = $this->var1 + 10;

             printf("Var1 is now %d\n",$counter";
  } 

  function encapsulatedMethod2($m2) 
  {

        $this-var2 = $m2

        $counter = $this->var2 - 10;

        print("Var2 is now %d\n",$counter);

 }

}

$a = new example();
$a->method1(20,20);
exit(1);

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I didn't write php5 syntax by created private methods, because my question is related more to OO programming in general.

Do I need to pass variable with in methods or is there a way to pass object data without adding them as method parameters? This is simple example, but I have a program that is passing vaules from a database for a google adsense configuration.

ie:
$this->buildForm($b->blog_id,$b->ad_client_no,$b->ad_width,$b->ad_height,
$b->ad_format,$b->ad_type,$b->ad_border, $b->ad_bg,$b->ad_link,$b->ad_url,$b->ad_text,$b->enable);

Thanx in advance.
-Marquis

[dougal85]

I'm not 100% sure.

but surely if you just send $b into the function, in the function you can then access all its properties.ie.

$this->buildForm($b)


function buidForm($b){

$blodId = $b->blog_id

}

and so on and so on.

Did i get the question right?