print class variable high up the page

[isedeasy]

I have a class that I created, halfway down my page I call a function from the class which prints some code and also changes a variable inside the class.

 

It's a search class basically it prints out the search results and saves the total amount of results into the variable.

 

I want to display the amount of results above the results like so:-

 

echo $Search->results;

$Search->GetResults('foo');

 

The problem is that $Search->results will be equal to NULL until the variable is updated in the function GetResults.

 

Hope that makes sense, am I going about this wrong?

[mikesta707]

why not just print $this->results inside your getResults function before it prints the other stuff? Alternatively, you could have your getResults function return a string with the output instead of printing it. This is probably the better option. Then you can do

$str = $Search->GetResults('foo');
$res = $Search->results;

 

and use these variables whenever you need, instead of being forced to use the output when you call them.