Comments on: Method Chaining in MooTools and PHP

By: AHHP

AHHP — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:16:19 +0000

Very nice articles. all are really useful :)

By: Chris the Developer

Chris the Developer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:11:17 +0000

AFAIK, method chaining is only available in PHP 5.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:54:06 +0000

Thtas a clever little tip there, thanks!

By: EmEhRKay

EmEhRKay — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:54:28 +0000

Cool stuff. I recently wrote two php classes Rules and Access. The rules class has basic validation methods like isSunday() isAdmin() etc. each do a boolean check setting a class param and returns $this. The the Access class is realy just a namespace for static methods like isAdminAndSunday() that simply returns the result from RulesInstance->isSunday()->isAdmin()->get();

Very decent stuff once you figure out usage for it

By: jem

jem — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:11:19 +0000

Took me a while to get in the habit of always returning some object in functions or class methods.

Also don’t forget about the chain method that a lot of native mootools classes support, i use it a fair bit when working with FX.

var myTween = new Fx.Tween($(‘someElement’), {property: ‘opacity’}).set(0).start(1).chain(functioin() { /* do something when tween completes */})

By: Bleyder

Bleyder — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:57:48 +0000

It’s one of the best tips I’ve ever read! Thanks!

By: nicolas Santos

nicolas Santos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:53:22 +0000

i’ve been searching this tips for a long time now :) i think i’ll have to recode some of my classes :)

thanx for the tips (again)

By: Kromack

Kromack — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:28:53 +0000

I’m affraid that it’s not possible to do method chaining natively in PHP. I’m used to use this synthax in most PHP frameworks and I didn’t knows that wasn’t a native feature ! I have learn something :)

By: Jelly

Jelly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:56:26 +0000

I had no idea you could chain methods like that in PHP. I was trying to think of a way to do exactly that just last night, and couldn’t figure it out. Champion!