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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics (Retired) Inheritance, Interfaces, and Exceptions Object Inheritance

Posted by ammarkhan
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points

How did getInfo(); printed flavor?

While getInfo function has return value of $this->name; which is just name, how come when $soda->getInfo(); is asked, it prints flavor too, whereas in method, it is just $this-name

Ramiro Aguirre
Ramiro Aguirre
Courses Plus Student 16,725 Points

it would be more helpfull if you provide the code that you're trying to input

the values that you get back from a method are defined in your __construct when you call your method outside a class and put a flavor as a parammetter within the parentesis

the computer won't know if its a name or a flavor because all of what the computer is expecting is a string value.

hope this helps

1 Answer

Dylan Bailey
Dylan Bailey
654 Points

Hi!

Your question is a bit hard to understand, due to there not being any code, but I'll do my best to give a (hopefully) helpful response. So, our class of Product has the method of getInfo() which returns the given name that you input. In our Soda class, we also have the getInfo() method, but this time it returns not only the name, but also the flavor.

The reason for this is that we are inheriting from our Product class and just adding onto it. Here's the Product class' methods:

  function __construct($name, $price, $desc){
    $this->name = $name;
    $this->price = $price;
    $this->desc = $desc;
  }

  public function getInfo(){
    return "Product Name: ". $this->name;
  }

If we were to create a new Product class, we would only be able to print out the name, unless we changed it, of course. Now, let's look at the methods for our Soda class which has been extended by our Product class:

  function __construct($name, $price, $desc, $flavor){
    parent::__construct($name, $price, $desc);
    $this->flavor = $flavor;
  }

  public function getInfo(){
    return "Product Name: " . $this->name . " Flavor: " . $this->flavor;
  }

As you can see, we have added onto our __construct method, which enables us to use $flavor in any Soda object. Instead of writing a whole mess of a new stuff, we can simply extend a class, which helps us stay DRY. If we create a new Soda object, we can pass in $flavor, whereas Product does not contain the $flavor parameter.

$soda = new Soda("Space Juice Soda", "5", "Thirst Mutilator", "Grape");

Hope this helped!