how to access a variable and called a class method at the same time

Hmmm,not sure how to do this

i have a public variable

public $meta;

I'm calling the method in my application like this

$auth->meta_data('rental_access');

Now I'm curious is to how I can get the information from it. How can I access the $meta variable information based on the switch logic from the method?

In my a开发者_JS百科pplication I want to use the information from the $meta variable to make some more logic statements hmmm something like

if ($auth->meta-data('rental_access') == 1) { //or maybe have it look for a true/false thing
    //do this
} else {
    // then do this
}

I would avoid combining that explicitely. Rather use the tried and proven fluent interface approach. You simply make each method return $this:

function meta_data($item) {
    ...

    return $this;
}

This allows you to write:

if ($auth->meta_data("rental_access")->meta == 2) {

It's usually used for calling multiple functions in a chains. But this likewise acceptable.

Obviously this is only applicable to procedures which don't already return a result of their own.

Why not modify your meta_data() method, so it returns the new value of your meta property :

public function meta_data($item)
{
    // your existing code, here

    return $this->meta;
}

And, then, call it storing the returned value into a variable :

$new_value = $auth->meta_data('rental_access');