in php if i have a class that returns a value say: return $val, how do i use this value in the php program?

[prevo]

I know vb, and I have used classes before, and Matt S, what you are saying is correct, but I couldn't apply it to php.
Would it be correct to say that what the dot is in vb is -> in php?

[Nulle]

// In root of program
$class = new Class();

$useVal = $class->method();
// useVal now equals returned val

[Mitchell]

Sounds like you mean you have a method of a class that is returning a value. So here is an example:

function GetNumber(){
$val = 15;
return $val;
}

To use this function you first create a variable then assign the return value of the function to the variable:

$returnedValue = GetNumber();

After execution, $returnedValue will now be equal to 15.

What is being returned is whatever is in $val... not $val itself. It IS possible to get a reference to $val but I don't think that is what you are getting at so I won't go there.

[anow2]

Im sorry for my noobiness, but what is a Class?

I just started PHP 3 days ago btw xD

[brandrocker]

PHP Classes are the same as that of the classes in C++
You can read this.

http://in2.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php

[HeeL]

anow2, if you want to learn classes in PHP, you must to use not PHP3. Download the latest version of PHP5. And read the book))