What does this php construct mean: $html->redirect(“URL”)?

Question

I\'ve seen this \"-> \" elsewhere used in php. One of the books I used to learn PHP has this in it, but it is never explained. What does it do, how does it work!

The

Answer 1

$html in your case is not a variable but a class. Just google for 'PHP class tutorial'. redirect in this is case is a member function, which should probably contain similar code:

class html {
    function redirect($url) {
         echo '';
         exit;
    }
}

This will allow to construct a class from your PHP script like this:

$html = new html;

And you will be able to call it's member:

$html->redirect("www.stackoverflow.com");