Accessing multiple same-named functions

Hello,

In my 'Main.php' I automatically include 3 different car company files
(companies A, B and C) by some filesearch function.
A.php
B.php
C.php

I want to calculate the lowest car price per company and display that
company name.
I want to add a new company simply by creating file 'D.php'.

I want all included files to have the same structure. (like a database
record)

For each company I would like to execute a same-named function
'CalculateCarPrice()'.
'CalculateCarPrice()' function code/behaviour should be different for each
manufacturer.

How do I solve this problem in PHP?
How do I create many same-named functions and store a reference to these
functions in some array.
Or is this impossible?

(It's not allowed to declare same-named class-names or same-named
function-names in included files more than once, of course)

Regards,

Henk

Basically you should use object-oriented PHP. Define one class in let's
say cars.class.php as:

class Cars {
var $company;

function Cars($company) {
$this->company=$company;
}

function CalculateCarPrice() {
switch ($this->company) {
case 'A':
//calculate car price here
break;
case 'B':
//calculate car price here
break;

//etc...
}
return $price;
}
}

Then you can create your files as :

//A.php
require_once('cars.class.php');
$car=new Cars('A');
echo $car->CalculateCarPrice();

i hope this helps.

Regards,

Ivan Pavlov

Henk van Winkoop wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In my 'Main.php' I automatically include 3 different car company files
> (companies A, B and C) by some filesearch function.
> A.php
> B.php
> C.php
>
> I want to calculate the lowest car price per company and display that
> company name.
> I want to add a new company simply by creating file 'D.php'.
>

You're barking up the wrong tree here.

While (as Ivan suggested) you could use derived classes, or you could
implement the different companies as differetn URLS and use
file_get_contents() (or similar) to retrieve the results, a proper solution
would describe the differences in data and use the same code to process the
request.

C.