Little mistake on setSource()

Yes, the setSource method should be using parenthesis.

I know It's 5 month old, but maybe this can be changed (fixed), what do you think Alena Holligan ? Maybe a note could be added to the course about that mistake. This error indeed makes things confusing.

Thank you for this. I have no idea how she got it to work in the video. I couldn't get it to work unless I added the parens.

I know this is old but I figured this information might help others.

Petrov von Petrov catched the mistake nicely! But the value for setSource is not considered invalid, this is why we get no errors. What is happening is a little messy. She ends up creating a property called setSource at runtime (I didn't even know this was possible in PHP) and making it equal to "Grandma Holligan".

Take a look at this example:

<?php
class MyClass
{
    public function myMethod()
    {
        return "I'm a method.";
    }
}

$myClassInstance = new MyClass();
$myClassInstance->myMethod = "I'm a string.";

var_dump($myClassInstance->myMethod);
var_dump($myClassInstance->myMethod());
?>

This piece of code returns:

string(13) "I'm a string."
string(13) "I'm a method."

Now, myClassInstance has both a method and a property called myMethod.

In the video, the class now has a method called setSource (which really sets the source), and also a property called setSource (which now contains the string passed). This means the property source remains unchanged from the default ("Alena Holligan"), as pointed out by Petrov von Petrov.