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[edward potter]

The yahoo UIL thigs are mind blowing.

Check out the videos, it's 10,000 lines of JS code. I'm starting to
fade out a bit from the PHP world - after MANY years, this new JS
stuff is just too tempting to play with.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/

:-)  ed

On 1/22/07, Billy Reisinger <billy.reisinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got nothing on chaining, but I have some opinions about the prototype
> concept.
> The prototyping concept in general is similar to using a static member in
> Java.  A function prototype in JavaScript is a member that is common to all
> instances of that function (read: class).  If one instance decides to change
> that prototype, all instances of that function immediately inherit that
> change.   Additionally, the prototype resides in a single spot in physical
> memory (supposedly), such that every new copy of a function uses the same
> set of prototypes.  I'm not a PHP expert, but I imagine there is a similar
> concept in PHP....
> One of the problems I've run into with javascript in a production
> environment is that it actually allows you to extend native objects, which
> themselves are just functions.   Extending native objects (i.e. Function,
> Object, Array, Element, etc.) can lead to unexpected errors when your code
> interacts with an outside environment.  Just to give you an example,
> extending the Array class with custom methods leads to these methods
> appearing as entries for every array in foreach loops.  Probably not what
> you wanted.
> AFAIK, PHP doesn't allow you to extend native objects like JavaScript does.
> Probably a good thing, anyway.
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Cliff Hirsch wrote:
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> I have been digging into JavaScript and jQuery, and am intrigued by several
> concepts.
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> 1. jQuery uses chaining, whereby every method within jQuery returns the
> query object itself.
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> 2. JavaScript's prototype method is an interesting concept for adding
> methods to existing classes.
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> I wonder how these techniques work in the PHP world. Does anyone use
> chaining effectively? Is there a PHP equivalent to the prototype concept?
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> Cliff
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