what is this..

[ilya]

what are those?im new to php ;)


{$this->table}
{$this->etable}

[Jona]

Those are related to object-oriented programming (http://us3.php.net/oop), whereas most of the time procedural code is used in PHP. OOP might seem redundant, but it is very useful for large-scale applications which must reuse the same functions multiple times.

[redijedi]

Specifically, $this refers to the current instance of the class which contains the reference. The operands on the right of the -> are properties or methods of the class $this. This code is using properties of its instance. If you had $otherObject->otherProp it would refer to the instance property of the class $otherObject.