When would you use the $this keyword in PHP?

Question

When would you use the $this keyword in PHP? From what I understand $this refers to the object created without knowing the objects name.

Al

Answer 1

no i think ur idea is wrong.. $this is used when refers to a object of the same class.. like this

think we have a variable value $var and in THAT instance of that object should be set to 5

$this->var=5;