OOP return class

[bkflash]

I am calling my class "myclass" and then calling the function "myfirst". At the end of the function I am trying to get the results to be returned to my public variables above. I saw where this was implimented before. I am having trouble figure out why its not working this time around. thanks in advance.

class myclass {

public $w_id;
public $w_first_name;







function myfirst(){



$ret = queryf("SELECT * FROM wildcats WHERE w_email_address = %s", '?@hotmail.com');


$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($ret);


return $row = new myclass($row);

}


function s(){

echo $w_id;
}



}

[risoknop]

echo $this->w_id; 

[bkflash]

yes i tried that already, but the public variables are not being assigned any values from the "return $row = new myclass($row);" statement

[crmalibu]

A return statement doesn't assign a value to a variable.
You can assign values to variables by using the assignment operator(=), obviously.

The point is, you need to actually do it. php can't guess which values you want in which variables.

$this->w_id = $row['w_id']; 

[bkflash]

ok thanks, i was just hoping there would be a easier way

[bhanson]

ok thanks, i was just hoping there would be a easier way

How could it be any easier?

[bkflash]

I was hoping that by returning a new class with a set array inside it, it would take that array of information and assign it to the public variables which would eliminate me having to type out all the variables and assigning the information to them.

[bhanson]

I was hoping that by returning a new class with a set array inside it, it would take that array of information and assign it to the public variables which would eliminate me having to type out all the variables and assigning the information to them.

You could write a trivial method to do something similar.

class SomeClass
{   
    public function setVars(array $array)
    {                                      
        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
            $this->$key = $value;
        }
    }
} 

$data = array('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'bat');

$sc = new SomeClass();
$sc->setVars($data);

echo "$sc->foo\n"; // bar
echo "$sc->baz\n"; // bat