5. Object-Oriented Programming

Activity 5.1: Building a Student and Professor Object Relationship

Solution

The steps to complete the activity are as follows:

1. Create a directory named activity1 to put all our activity content in it. This should be our working directory (you can cd to the directory).
2. Create a directory named Student inside the activity1 directory to put the namespaced Student class in it.
3. Create a PHP file called Student.php inside the Student directory.
4. Declare a Student class where the Student class has been namespaced as Student and has two member attributes, $name and $title, which are student by default. The constructor method accepts the student's name as an argument. The argument is hinted with its desired type as string (anything other than string will produce an error) and assigns it to the $name property using $this->name. So, whenever we instantiate the Student class, we should call the class by its namespace, such as the...