Help with learning

[hishighness]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to teach myself php by reading php.net and diving in to code head first. It's going pretty well so far as I've been able to meet some useful stuff but I've kinda reached a roadblock here and was wondering if you guys can "unstuck" me.

 

For the life of me I can't figure out what this is supposed to do.

 

if($ipsclass->input['act'] == "Arcade")
{
$ipsclass->input['autocom'] = "arcade";

}

 

From the context of what the page does I deduce that it checks to see whether act = Arcade and if it is it sets $ipsclass->input['autocom'] to "arcade" but I have no clue what the $ipsclass->input part does. Is it like a function called "input" ? Is $ipsclass a variable, a function, or something else I've never heard of?

 

Any light that could be shed on this would be appreciated, because I'm lost. It looks like a powerful function which could save me a lot of typing.

 

Thanks for your time,

H²

[Ken2k7]

ipsclass is a class. Shocking isn't it. But it's a class and it's calling on an input array that's in the class.

 

A class is *NOT* a function.

[allworknoplay]

if($ipsclass->input['act'] == "Arcade")
{
$ipsclass->input['autocom'] = "arcade";

}

 

 

$ipsclass is your object. So somewhere up above you instantiated it like so:

 

$ipsclass = new yourclass();

 

 

You access your entire class through $ipsclass....any methods or properties is accessed through this....

[hishighness]

Thank you allworkandnoplay, that was very helpful.