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Ok, this is a really, really newbie question, but I've googled and tried several different way of doing this with no luck. My first time making a class in PHP. I'm making a simple class that will query an e-mail to a DataBase and it will return if the e-mail exists in that database or not. Here is how I made the class.
<?php
class isEmailUnique{
private $email;
include '../dbc/DBC.php';
$collection = $db->members;
$ifEmailRaw = $collection->find(array('eMail' => $email));
$ifEmail = $ifEmailRaw -> count();
if($ifEmail > 0){
return false;
}
else{
return true;
}
}
?>
Here is how I am using the class:
<?php
include 'classes/checkEmailIsUnique.php';
echo isEmailUnique->'text#test.com';
?>
Here is my error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR), expecting ',' or ';' in /var/www/partycloud.tv/public_html/php/test.php on line 5
My desired result would that it returns either 1 or 0.
I know this is probably very easy, I just don't get it how to construct a class, I'm having a very difficult time comprehending the few articles I've read. Any help with this would be awesome! Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Answer 1

That's not how classes work. Here's an example of what an OOP version of your code could look like:
<?php
class EmailHelper {
private $db;
public function __construct() {
include '../dbc/DBC.php';
$this->db = new DBC();
}
public function IsUnique($email) {
$collection = $this->db->members;
$ifEmailRaw = $collection->find(array('eMail' => $email));
$ifEmail = $ifEmailRaw->count();
return ($ifEmail <= 0);
}
public function IsValid($email) {
/* Logic */
}
public function IsFromDomain($email, $domain) {
/* Logic */
}
}
$emailHelper = new EmailHelper();
if ($emailHelper->IsUnique('text#test.com')) {
echo 'Unique!';
}
?>

Answer 2

Your definition is kind of an (illegal) hybrid of a class and a function. Look up how to define a member function within a class. As a hint, the line that is erroring is going to have to look more something like this, well, as your class is now defined:
echo isEmailUnique->check('text#test.com');
...where check() is the member function you define. Probably you mean something more like this:
echo whateverYourClassNameIs->isEmailUnique('text#test.com');
...where your current class name is really meant to be a function name within the class...