Variable -&gt;

Variable ->

I was looking through the phpBB source and I saw -> used with vairables quite heavily.

The PHP manual seems to have nothing avaible on this and I was wondering what this does.

An example would be here:

	$module->load('ucp', 'activate');
	$module->display($user->lang['UCP_ACTIVATE']);

Thanks

It is the syntax for referring to objects and their members. The first item must be an object, then each item to the right of an arrow is either a member variable or function (called a "method" in object-oriented code). See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php for some basic info, but you're probably better off with something like http://devzone.zend.com/article/638-PHP-101-part-7-The-Bear-Necessities if OOP is new to you.