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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Building the Recipe Static Methods

Why do we pass object in static class as a args.

I was watching the video, in which Alena wrote a static property of Render::display($recipe1), for previous videos the $recipe1 is a object itself, so how does that work?

Frans Teja
Frans Teja
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Hi, Ammar Khan

Yes it can work both ways, but instead this video Alena moved the one of the function into a new Class that is called "Render". From that She's setting it up as static function which we should call it in our php.

Render::display($recipe1)

Explanation, "Render", this is the name of the class "display()", this is the name of the function inside Render Class "$recipe1", this is the name of the New stated Object that has been done in earlier videos.

As for that When she called that static function from Render Class. It works the same as like the video before, but instead we should use $recipe1 instead of $this because they are already in different class.