implementation of User class by using object

Question

i am new to php and i want to achieve the following. i have search on internet but i didnt find any help.

$user = new User();
$user->setFirstName('John')->setLastName('Doe')->setEmail('[email protected]');
echo $user;

and i want the output like the following

   "John Doe <[email protected]>"

Following is what i am trying to do

  class User {
  // Properties
  public $setFirstName;
  public $setLastName;
  public $setEmail;

// Methods

function setFirstName($setFirstName) {
$this->setFirstName = $setFirstName;
}

   function setLastName($setLastName) {
$this->setLastName = $setLastName;
   }

   function setEmail($setEmail) {
     $this->setEmail = $setEmail;

}
}

Alex Howansky · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-25 16:20:02Z

2

If you want to be able to chain multiple method calls like this:

$user->setFirstName('John')->setLastName('Doe')...

Then you simply need to have each of your setter methods return the special self-referencing object variable $this:

function setFirstName($setFirstName) {
    $this->setFirstName = $setFirstName;
    return $this;
}

If you want echo $user; to display something meaningful, you can implement the __toString magic method. Have it return whatever string you want to display:

function __toString() {
    return sprintf('%s %s <%s>', $this->setFirstName, $this->setLastName, $this->setEmail);
}

answered Mar 25, 2022 at 16:20

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usman ahmad Over a year ago

thanks alex. with me the problem was that i was not know the name of the this process now find the name and its method changing. Thanks again

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