Rob Lowe

Are you just starting out with the Smarty template language? Are you trying to install it some place other than in '/usr/local/lib/Smarty-xxxx'? If so and you are having problems, you are not alone.

Here's the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7

Abstraction

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 8

Getters and Setters

How that our classes are getting more secure we should consider preventing direct access to properties. To that end, we can set getter and setter methods that will, well, get and set the data members.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

Class Access Modifiers

Hey, remember access modifiers? Well, we can use that same concept for more than just properties. Just like before, you have public, protected and private modifiers for classes.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

Inheritance

Inheritance is the method in which a class is derived from another class, called a parent class.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 5

Object Type Hints

In most programming languages, you can pass a value to a function. PHP is no different.

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• Part 1
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

Last time, I introduced the concepts of classes and objects. To recap, a class is a template and an object is the product of that template. Next on the list are properties, constructors and methods.

Let's start with the class MyFirstClass from part 1 and add some properties.

In case you haven't been reading, here is the series so far:

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5