Working with Classes and Objects

Now you can create objects of this new class with the new statementfor example, you might want to create an object named $lion. Objects such as these are stored in variables in PHP. After you create that object, you can access the get_name and set_name methods using the arrow operator, ->. Here's what that looks like:

<?php
    class Animal
    {
        var $name;

        function set_name($text)
        {
            $this->name = $text;
        }
        function get_name()
        {
            return $this->name;
        }
    }
    $lion = new Animal;
    $lion->set_name("Leo");
    echo "The name of your new lion is ", $lion->get_name(), ".";
?>