help with OOP class (PHP4)

[sholah]

hi all,

i have a bit problem understanding something, i am studying a code and i bumped into something that i am having difficulties understanding and getting info from the manual.

On a script, a class function was referenced thus:

@$AppUI->getVersion()

I do undestand that quite well but the following is a reference to the same class which got me off-balance:

$AppUI->_('variable') (p.s. it is actually part of an echo statement)

Pls, what does this mean and pls help differentiate the two codes.

Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

You are allowed to define a function (or method) named "_". In fact, the [man]gettext[/man] extension does exactly this.

So that's all it is: a method with a very short and easy-to-write name (even easier than "please", in fact).

[NogDog]

Not exactly a best practice if you like your code to be self-documenting and easy to maintain, though. 😉

[Weedpacket]

It's hard to pronounce, too (do you mean "_()" or "underscore()"?)

[bradgrafelman]

Well if you want to talk about easy to pronounce, what about functions such as "under_score()" ? "_under_score()" ? Et al?