What does -> mean? What does :: mean ? - Google not helping you?

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I found it quite hard to find some programming specific symbols on google, so that we can learn about them.

So, and by guessing, I end up finding token keyword. :smiley: Parser Token. Magic Words.

For someone that, may have the same difficulties here’s a fine link:
http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php

Márcio

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You mean I have to keep them straight?! Aww!!! :slight_smile:

Here’s a link to the Arrow Operator: http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.static.php

There is a link on that page for the scope operator.

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Getting your programming languages mixed up there, David? :wink:

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-> is called something like a postfix expression. It’s used when a pointer is accessing a child of itself like a class. It’s the alternative for (*name).child. Rather, it can just be name->child.

:: is the scope operator. It’s used for things like namespaces, so if you have a namespace mine with a function yours, then you could access it such as mine::yours. If you were to just go ::yours, then it would look for a function (or variable) in the global scope.