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Why am I getting this error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Card could not be converted to
string in /f5/debate/public/Card.php on line 79

Here is the code:

public function insert()

{

    $mysql = new DB(debate);



    $this->initializeInsert();



    $query = "INSERT INTO cards

            VALUES('$this->$type','$this->$tag','$this->$author->$last','$this->$author->$first',

            '$this->$author->$qualifications','$this->$date->$year','$this->$date->$month',

            '$this->$date->$day','$this->$title', '$this->$source', '$this->$text')";

            $mysql->execute($query);

}

(Line 79 is the $query and the function is part of class Card)

All the declarations of Card:

public $type;



public $tag;

public $title;

public $source;

public $text;



public function __construct() {

    $this->date = new Date;

    $this->author = new Author;

}

After changing line 79 to this:

$query = "INSERT INTO cards

    VALUES('$this->type','$this->tag','$this->author->last','$this->author->first',

    '$this-$author->qualifications','$this->date->year','$this->date->month','$this->date->day',

    '$this->title', '$this->source', '$this->text')";

I now get this error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Author could not be converted
to string in /f5/debate/public/Card.php on line 79

Read about string parsing, you have to enclose the variables with brackets {}:

$query = "INSERT INTO cards VALUES('$this->type','$this->tag','{$this->author->last}',"

Whenever you want to access multidimensional arrays or properties of a property in string, you have to enclose this access with {}. Otherwise PHP will only parse the variable up to the first [i] or ->property.

So with "$this->author->last" instead of "{$this->author->last}", PHP will only parse and evaluate $this->author which gives you the error as author is an object.

I don't think you need the $ sign when using arrow operator.

you shouldn't put $ before property names when you access them:

public function insert() {

        $mysql = new DB(debate);

        $this->initializeInsert();

        $query = "INSERT INTO cards VALUES('$this->type','$this->tag','$this->author->last','$this->author->first','$this-$author->qualifications','$this->date->year','$this->date->month','$this->date->day','$this->title', '$this->source', '$this->text')";

        $mysql->execute($query);

    }

You are trying to echo an object itself, not a string property of it. Check your code carefully.

You probably want to use:

$query = "INSERT INTO cards VALUES('$this->type','$this->tag' // etc

I think one of the object doesn't have toString() method defined so it cannot be represented as string.