Object oriented setting and getting variables

[lajkonik86]

Hey, im sort of new to the world of object oriented programming and i seem to be having a little problem.
I have the following class:

class Projectreply extends BaseProjectreply
{
public $myauthor;

public function getAuthor()
{
	return $this->myauthor;
}

public function setAuthor($v)
{
		$this->myauthor = $v;
}
}

Now Somehow

	$reply = new Projectreply();
	$reply->setAuthor($rs->get($namePos));
        $reply->getAuthor();

Is not working and i cant seem to explain why.
Im sure the value is being passed to the class, im sure the getAuthor method is being called. Something is going wrong with the variable in the class.
Any good tutorial about what i'm not understanding?

[laserlight]

Looks okay (though I question the use of inheritance and public member variable). Perhaps the problem is that you are not actually using the value returned from the getAuthor() member function? For example, you might write:

$reply = new Projectreply();
$reply->setAuthor($rs->get($namePos));
echo $reply->getAuthor();

[lajkonik86]

well that would have been nice, but unfortunately

public function getAuthor()
{
	return 'thierry';
}

does output correctly,
somehow it is either not storing the variable or retrieving the variable correctly

yes the usage of public is a bit strange, was just testing, have it set on protected right now.

[laserlight]

Well, perhaps $rs->get($namePos) is returning a blank string. Writing the smallest and simplest script that demonstrates the problem is a useful debugging method, so I suggest you try it here. For example, test out this script:

<?php
class ProjectReply
{
    public function getAuthor()
    {
        return $this->author;
    }

public function setAuthor($author)
{
    $this->author = $author;
}

private $author;
}

$reply = new ProjectReply();
$reply->setAuthor('thierry');
echo $reply->getAuthor();
?>

[LordZenith]

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10816888#poststop

I recently had the same problem.

[lajkonik86]

class Projectreply extends BaseProjectreply
{


public function setAuthor($author)
{
		$this->myauthor = $author;
		echo $author;
}
public function getAuthor()
{
echo $this->myauthor;
	return $this->myauthor;
}
protected $myauthor = null;

}

the set echo's but the get doesn't

in the simple form as you suggested it works,

could it be related to the extending?

[laserlight]

the set echo's but the get doesn't

Show the code that uses the class. With your current code, I expect nothing to be printed since you only have a class definition.

could it be related to the extending?

Possibly. Incidentally, avoid using protected member variables. The rule of thumb is to use private member variables.

[NogDog]

While in development mode, don't forget to turn on error reporting to ensure you're getting any information the parser might be trying to tell you:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// rest of script . . .