How do I dynamically insert one class into another ?

steamPunk

maybe my thread title isn't too clear, but I can't get my head round some aspects of classes

basically I have a very simple class that writes a table cell :

class tableCell {

var $html = "";

var $tdClass = "";

function tableCellOut(){

	$this->html .= "<td";
	if($this->tdClass!=""){
		$this->html .= " class=\"".$this->tdClass."\" ";
	}
	$this->html .= ">";

	// I want to insert contents here

	$this->html .= "</td>\n";

	return $this->html;		
}	
}

and I call it from my page with

$tC1 = new tableCell;
echo $tC1->tableCellOut();

then I have several classes to write either a clickable icon, a select menu, a clickable text link etc and I want to be able to insert them into the table cell

how do I do this from the page so that when i instantiate the tableCell class i can tell it which class to use for the contents and send some variables to that contents class ?

when i read online tutorials about this it only seems to confuse things more !

thanks

Weedpacket

Add a method that lets you add content to the cell. Perhaps have an array that can contain HTML widgets like icons etc., and/or plain strings. Then the add method would append whatever is passed into it onto the end of the array. then "// insert contents here" would go through that array and generate the output HTML for each item, appending it to $this->html.

steamPunk

hi - thanks for your reply

I see what you mean but what I would really like to do is to instantiate a class where it says "// insert contents here " but I can't figure out how to do that dynamically so that when i make a table cell i can tell it which class to use for its contents - is there a simple way of doing that ?