What's this mean ->

[ninjayong]

I understand basic PHP and am in a rush to modify a little bit of code for an existing shopping cart. The problem I'm facing is that I don't know what this means ->

I've tried searching but obviously no luck and I don't know what it's referred to as. Here's an example of a line of code I'm looking at.

$order->storeTrans($transData);

What does it mean ??

[Jake Arkinstall]

ah - that's OOP PHP.

If you're only a beginner it's way out of your depth, however if you're more experienced you may want to look at:
http://uk3.php.net/oop5

It's a completely different and advanced area of PHP.

[logic_earth]

http://php.net/oop

[Jake Arkinstall]

But as to the function:

$order->storeTrans($transData); 

you need to look at where $order is defined. It might look something like:

$order = new order; 

You'll need to look through the include files until you find code which looks like this:

Class order{ 

and within the braces, you need to look for a function storeTrans(). That's the function.

[ninjayong]

Aaaah so that's what it is !! Thanks to both of you for the link to the relevant PHP chapter. I'm familiar with OOP so that's really helped