Methods of defining classes for PHP classes and objects

method is the function in the class, many times we can not tell the difference between the method and the function, in the process-oriented program design is called functions, in object-oriented function is called a method.

Like properties, the methods of the class also have public,protected and private access control.

The keyword for access control represents the meaning:
Public: Publicly available
Protected: Protected
Private: Private

We can define methods like this:

Class Car {public    function GetName () {        return ' car ';    }?} $car = new car (); Echo $car->getname ();

Statically decorated with keywords, called static methods, static methods do not need to instantiate objects, can be called directly through the class name, the operator is a double colon:.

Class Car {public    static function GetName () {        return ' car ';    }?} Echo Car::getname (); The result is "car"

Methods of defining classes for PHP classes and objects