It's been a while since I've worked with PHP and am having a hard time figuring out how to call $this
from within a class instantiated va ReflectionMethod
I'm instantiating MyClass
and want to see some variables, and then access those variables from within a sub class.
$foo = new MyClass('bootstrap');
$foo->bar = 'baz',
class MyClass {
public $bar = false;
function __construct($wrapper = '')
{
# determine our field wrapper and CSS classes
if (!$wrapper) {
# no wrapper, default divs and css
$this->wrapper = '';
} else {
# user-defined wrapper
$this->wrapper = strtolower($wrapper);
$wrapper_css = $wrapper . '_css';
}
if (!$this->wrapper || in_array($this->wrapper, $this->default_wrapper_types)) {
# use default css
$this->controls = Wrapper::css_defaults();
} else {
# custom wrapper/control types
try {
# check the Controls class for the supplied method
$method = new ReflectionMethod('wrapper::' . $wrapper_css);
if ($method->isStatic()) {
$this->controls = Wrapper::$wrapper_css();
}
} catch (ReflectionException $e) {
# method does not exist, spit out error and set default controls
echo '<span style="color:red">' . $e->getMessage() . '</span>';
$this->controls = Wrapper::css_defaults();
}
}
}
}
class Wrapper extends MyClass {
public static function css_defaults() {
// class names go here...
}
public static function bootstrap_css($key = '') {
// Bootstrap css classes go here...
}
public function bootstrap($element = '', $data = '') {
// Bootstrap form group codes go here...
// $this->bar is not available
var_dump($this->bar);
}
}
I realize I'm instantiating the class and setting the wrapper before setting $foo->bar
, so I tried creating another method instead of using the constructor for setting the wrapper, but still can not access $this->bar
// create the wrapper method...
class MyClass {
public $bar = false;
function wrapper($wrapper = '')
{
# determine our field wrapper and CSS classes
if (!$wrapper) {
# no wrapper, default divs and css
$this->wrapper = '';
} else {
# user-defined wrapper
$this->wrapper = strtolower($wrapper);
$wrapper_css = $wrapper . '_css';
}
if (!$this->wrapper || in_array($this->wrapper, $this->default_wrapper_types)) {
# use default css
$this->controls = Wrapper::css_defaults();
} else {
# custom wrapper/control types
try {
# check the Controls class for the supplied method
$method = new ReflectionMethod('wrapper::' . $wrapper_css);
if ($method->isStatic()) {
$this->controls = Wrapper::$wrapper_css();
}
} catch (ReflectionException $e) {
# method does not exist, spit out error and set default controls
echo '<span style="color:red">' . $e->getMessage() . '</span>';
$this->controls = Wrapper::css_defaults();
}
}
}
}
// call it...
$foo = new MyClass();
$foo->bar = 'baz',
$foo->wrapper('bootstrap')
How can I do this?