Calling a function within a Class method?

Question

I have been trying to figure out how to go about doing this but I am not quite sure how.

Here is an example of what I am trying to do:

class test {
          


        

Answer 1

The sample you provided is not valid PHP and has a few issues:

public scoreTest() {
    ...
}

is not a proper function declaration -- you need to declare functions with the 'function' keyword.

The syntax should rather be:

public function scoreTest() {
    ...
}

Second, wrapping the bigTest() and smallTest() functions in public function() {} does not make them private — you should use the private keyword on both of these individually:

class test () {
    public function newTest(){
        $this->bigTest();
        $this->smallTest();
    }

    private function bigTest(){
        //Big Test Here
    }

    private function smallTest(){
           //Small Test Here
    }

    public function scoreTest(){
      //Scoring code here;
    }
}

Also, it is convention to capitalize class names in class declarations ('Test').

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I think you are searching for something like this one.

class test {

    private $str = NULL;

    public function newTest(){

        $this->str .= 'function "newTest" called, ';
        return $this;
    }
    public function bigTest(){

        return $this->str . ' function "bigTest" called,';
    }
    public function smallTest(){

        return $this->str . ' function "smallTest" called,';
    }
    public function scoreTest(){

        return $this->str . ' function "scoreTest" called,';
    }
}

$test = new test;

echo $test->newTest()->bigTest();

Answer 3

  class sampleClass
    { 
        public function f1()
        {
           return "f1 run";
        }

        public function f2()
        {
           echo ("f2 run" );
           $result =  $this->f1();
           echo ($result);
        }   

    f2();  

    }

output :

f2 run f1 run

Answer 4

Try this one:

class test {
     public function newTest(){
          $this->bigTest();
          $this->smallTest();
     }

     private function bigTest(){
          //Big Test Here
     }

     private function smallTest(){
          //Small Test Here
     }

     public function scoreTest(){
          //Scoring code here;
     }
}

$testObject = new test();

$testObject->newTest();

$testObject->scoreTest();

Answer 5

You can also use self::CONST instead of $this->CONST if you want to call a static variable or function of the current class.

Answer 6

You need to call newTest to make the functions declared inside that method “visible” (see Functions within functions). But that are then just normal functions and no methods.