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Managed to get this solved I originally came across a solution using a static object and another method but was given a much better solution by a guy named Ryano from Stackoverflow... I will post his solution (I won't include mine as I don't want others to use bad code) class resources { private $string; public function __construct ($string) { $this->string = $string; } public static function getString ($string) { $obj = new resources($string); return $obj; } public function replace ($replace_this, $with_this) { # Replace and return instance $this->string = str_replace($replace_this, $with_this, $this->string); return $this; } public function show () { # Return String return $this->string; } }

class resources{ private static $instance, $string; public static function getString($stringName){ # Create new instance self::$instance = new self; # Grabs stringName from an XML file self::$string = $stringName; # Return instance var_dump(self::$instance); return self::$instance; } public static function replace($replace_this, $with_this){ # Replace and return instance self::$string = str_replace($replace_this, $with_this, self::$string); return self::$instance; } public static function show(){ # Return String return self::$string; } } echo resources::getString("alpha") // alpha ->replace("lpha","bravo") // abravo ->replace("vo", resources::getString("charlie")->show()) // should be abracharlie ->show(); // charlie This is the closest I thought I had got... but the original value gets replaced with 'charlie' instead of maintaining 'abravo' and replacing part of that... So close yet so far away!

Hi, thanks for the reply I've had a look through the code that you've posted and read into lazy initialisation and it sounds like what I'm trying to figure out. You process the string as many times as you need to and then at the end you display the item. I got a little closer to solving this at work but forgot to send it home to have another play so will try and mimic what I had created. I basically set it so that every call of getString created a new instance of the object so they were all unique but I had this problem... The first time it would allow a replace and would use its own object, but the next time I try it, it reused the first object like so: Object resources [1] Object resources [2] Object resources [1] The code you posted here works until you try and replace a string with something else from the XML file Heres the original: #Use-Case 2 $resources->getString()->show(); // whatever $resources->getString()->replace('whatever', 'whichever')->replace('whichever', 'what-eva')->show(); // what-eva And what doesn't seem to work when you try to replace using something else from the XML: #Use-Case 2 $resources->getString()->show(); // whatever $resources->getString()->replace('whatever', 'whichever')->replace('whichever', $resources->getString()->show())->show(); // should display "whatever" again The reason I wanted to chain was to make it really easy to replace strings one after the other: $string1.replace("blah","hello").replace("name","randomer").replace("what","is meant"); Otherwise you have loads of wrapping and it gets really ugly: str_replace("what","is meant", str_replace("name","randomer",str_replace("blah", "hello", $string1)));

What I'm trying to replicate is like something in Java... resources.getString("blahblah").replace("this","that").replace("that",resources.getString("anotherstring")); Each resources thing is contained as its own thing but you don't need to initiate each one of them so that its all chained and on one line and really clean. If anyone understands?

Nope... didn't work and I'm still stuck

I'm guessing that I need to create the opposite of a Singleton class... Like so: function getInstance(){ // If not created yet, create it and return if (self::$instance){ self::$instance = new resources(); } return self::$resources; } Will test and relay my results back here for future reference if it fixes or doesn't work

Hey, I'm having a little trouble with chaining and I can't quite understand why this is behaving like it is... it's probably obvious to anyone but myself getString() retrieves the string and returns the entire object (for chaining), show() will output it as a String (so that I can do other stuff to the string first) Here it is in it's basic form: $resources->getString("newsletter.hello")->show(); // returns "Hello Name" Then lets say I want to replace some text within that string... $resources->getString("newsletter.hello")->replace("name","Bob")->show(); // returns "Hello Bob" Now...... I want to replace some text within that string with another string I get using that object: $resources->getString("newsletter.hello")->replace("name", $resources->getString("admin.name")->show())->show(); // returns "Bob" (instead of "Hello Admin") Within the first call, it grabs "Hello name" but when it gets to the second call, it replaces "Hello name" with just "Bob" because it overrides the entire string with what the second call pulls back. I need to understand why the first item gets it's value replaced (I'm guessing its because its reusing the same object so the Variable gets replaced rather than maintaining it for when I need to replace something within it) but I'm not sure how to fix it. The class (stripped out crap so its easier to read): class resources{ private $currentLocale = "en"; private $string = ""; public function __construct($currentLocale){ $this->currentLocale = $currentLocale; } public function getString($stringName){ # Grabs stringName from an XML file $this->string = xmlfile($stringName); return $this; } function replace($replace_this, $with_this){ $this->string = preg_replace("/" . $replace_this . "/", $with_this, $this->string); return $this; } function show(){ return $this->string; } } I'd really appreciate the help, I'm looking to understand this issue...

I doubt the next version will be anything impressive. How often do Adobe change anything in their products before adding a new number and selling it for the same price as the previous versions?

For a nice dedibox I'd have to recommend rapidswitch For the bee's knees you get a great level of service... I've got one running CentOS 5.3 for running my game.... perhaps overkill lol

After reading Sams Learn PHP in 24 hours I was recommended by a university tutor to read and have read quite a bit of: Matt Zandstra - PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice

I think all of the people who say Notepad++ is the best PHP editor haven't had a lengthy play with a proper IDE like Netbeans... I used to use Notepad++ and think the same thing... when it come to using xDebug and doing other stuff I really couldn't go back from Netbeans As long as you have a chunky enough machine I don't think anything beats it really. Nice and clean UI as well. I love the Ctrl + Alt + O for opening files... beats Ctrl + O then looking for your file and double clicking it I also love the Right click > Go to Declaration on functions