Until yesterday I was burning my brain trying to switch from a procedural thinking to a OOP thinking; this morning I gave up. I said to my self I wasn't probably ready yet to understand it.
I started then coding in the usual way, writing a function to check if there's the cookie "logged" or not
function chkCookieLogin() {
if(isset($_COOKIE["logged"])) {
$logged = 'true';
$cookieValue = $_COOKIE["logged"];
return $logged;
return $cookieValue;
}
else {
$logged = 'false';
return $logged;
}
}
$result = chkCookieLogin();
if($result == 'true'){
echo $cookieValue;
}
else {
echo 'NO COOKIE';
}
since I run across a problem: I wanted to return two variables ($logged
and $cookieValue
) instead of just one. I google it and I found this answer where Jasper explains a method using an OOP point of view (or this is what I can see).
That answer opened me a new vision on the OOP so I tried to rewrite what I was trying to achieve this way:
class chkCookie {
public $logged;
public $cookieValue;
public function __construct($logged, $cookieValue) {
$this->logged = $logged;
$this->cookieValue = $cookieValue;
}
function chkCookieLogin() {
$out = new chkCookie();
if(isset($_COOKIE["logged"])) {
$out->logged = 'true';
$out->cookieValue = $_COOKIE["logged"];
return $out;
}
else {
$out->logged = 'false';
return $out;
}
}
}
$vars = chkCookieLogin();
$logged = $vars->logged;
$cookieValue = $vars->cookieValue;
echo $logged; echo $cookieValue;
Obviously it didn't work at the first attempt...and neither at the second and the third. But for the first time I feel I'm at one step to "really touch" the OOP (or this is what I think!).
My questions are:
- is this attempt correctly written from the OOP point of view?
- If yes, what are the problems? ('cause I guess there's more than one)
Thank you so much!