Smarty/ OOP question

I have a class. Lets call it classA.

class classA {
public $smarty;

__construct () {
$this->smarty = new Smarty(); //Lets just assume that I've done all the necessary includes etc for smarty
}
}

$classA = new classA;

PHP:

Basically what I'd like is Smarty to be acessible, using: $classA->smarty eg $classA->smarty->assign('blah','blah');

I find that works up to a point, it will work if I do a $this->smarty->assign(); but it wont work if I do a $classA->smarty->assign();

Am I messing up somewhere?

Any ideas?

 

well, I suppose "assign" won't work because it's a function ... and functions need to be followed by () in order to work properly ..

 

What do you mean? Please explain.

 

You have syntax error, the constructor is a function:

public function __construct( ) {}

PHP:

<?php
class classA {
   public $smarty;

   public function __construct () {
      $this->smarty = new Smarty(); //Lets just assume that I've done all the necessary includes etc for smarty
   }
}

class Smarty {
   public function lol( ) { echo "LOL"; }
}


$classA = new classA;
$classA->smarty->lol( );
?>

PHP:

 

So, it should jsut be as simple as that?

 

Yes, it is as simple as that. The reason yours didn't worked is because you forgot to add the "function" keyword before "__construct". Therefore, whenever you instantiate $classA, the constructor doesn't get called so object $smarty doesn't get instantiated.

To put it short, you made a typo.