PHP Class won't return to a String
class, oop, php, return
Solution
What do you expect it to happen? You're not saving the result of what stripVars returns into a variable:
$result = $a->stripVars($projCat);
print $result;
What you are trying to do is print the object variable itself. If you want to control what happens when you try to print an object, you need to define the `__toString` method.
Problem
I'm fairly new to PHP so I have a small problem as I'm learning: I built a Class called DataStrip.php ``` <?php final class DataStrip { public function DataStrip() { // constructor } public function stripVars($vars) { return $vars; } } ?> ``` and then I'm trying to pass the public function stripVars a value: ``` <?php include_once ('lib/php/com/DataStrip.php'); echo($projCat); $a = new DataStrip; $a->stripVars($projCat); echo($a); ?> ``` however, I get back this error: ( ! ) Catchable fatal error: Object of class DataStrip could not be converted to string in myfilepath ... any advice perhaps on what I could be doing wrong here? Right now this is just a test function as I'm trying to get used to OOP PHP. :)