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PHP

Posted by Fiona Meester
Fiona Meester
12,768 Points

OOP Challenge extending classes

Challenge Task 2 of 3 Step 1: Add an additional array property to the Developer class named $skills that CANNOT be accessed from outside that class, but CAN be accessed by a child.

Step 2: Create a public facing GETTER named "getSkills" that will return the $skills property as an array.

Step 3: Create a public facing SETTER named "setSkills" that will accept an array and set the $skill property to that array value.

I got stuck here. I am quite new to PHP and not sure what I'm doing wrong and why.

<?php

class Developer extends User{
 protected $skills=[]; 
}
public function getSkills(){
 return $this->skills;
}
public function setSkills($array)
    {
    $this->skills = $array;
    }

?>

Less relevant:

<?php
//do not modify this file
class User {
    protected $name;
    protected $title;

    public function __construct($name = null, $title = null) {
        $this->name = $name;
        $this->title = $title;
    }

    public function __toString() {
        return $this->getSalutation();
    }

    public function getSalutation() {
        return $this->title . " " . $this->name;
    }

    public function getName() {
        return $this->name;
    }

    public function setName($name) {
        $this->name = $name;
    }

    public function getTitle() {
        return $this->title;
    }

    public function setTitle($title) {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
}

2 Answers

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Hi Fiona,

From what I can tell looking at this it looks like the functions are outside of your Developer class. Take a look at that closing }.

<?php
class Developer extends User{
  protected $skills=[];

  public function getSkills()
  {
    return $this->skills;
  }

  public function setSkills($array)
  {
    $this->skills = $array;
  }
}
vishal mishra
vishal mishra
387 Points

can you elaborate what is her mistake because same is happening with me

Fiona Meester
Fiona Meester
12,768 Points
Fiona Meester
Fiona Meester
12,768 Points

Pff haha yeah, that was the problem, thanks! This cost me hours.. :P