PHP $this variable

Question

I am reading some PHP code that I could not understand:

class foo {
  function select($p1, $dbh=null) {
    if ( is_null($dbh) )
        $dbh = $this->dbh         


        

Answer 1

class foo {
  function select($p1, $dbh=null) {
    if ( is_null($dbh) )
        $this->dbh = $dbh ; 
    return; 
  }

  function get() {
    return $this->dbh; 
  }
}