Weird object happening

[stonecolddevin]

Ok,
Here's the deal:
I have this object oriented site I am putting together, and I was wondering, why will doPage work when I use it like this:

grizzly::makeImage("img/brys_art.png", "30", "150", "masterpieces of a
+ genious"), 
                q[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="photo?id=brys" title="bri
+lliant">prity pikchurs</a>
                 ]    )

But not when I use it like this:

$nub->makeImage("img/brys_art.png", "30", "150", "masterpieces of a ge
+nious"), 
                q[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="photo?id=brys" title="bri
+lliant">prity pikchurs</a>
                 ]    )

??
Any help is appreciated.

update (broquaint): moved signature <div>

[cees]

The 'makeImage' subroutine is acting like a function, and not a method.

I find it easiest to understand the difference between a function and a method by looking at it in the way that perl actually handles them.

# function call
grizzly::makeImage();

# class method call
grizzly->makeImage();
# Which perl translates to
grizzly::makeImage('grizzly');

# object method call
$nub->makeImage();
# which perl translates to
grizzly::makeImage($nub);

So unless 'makeImage' is expecting the classname or the object itself as the first parameter, it will only work as a function. I would recommend that you read the perltoot docs that come with perl. It will give you much better insight into how objects work in perl that I can in this post.

[blokhead]

$obj->method("foo", "bar") gets translated (more or less) to SomePkg::method($obj, "foo", "bar") -- the object is passed into method as $_[0]. Your code for makeImage should expect the object as the first argument if you plan to use it as a method.

If the function works as you desire right now, you probably don't need it to be OO, as it doesn't get passed the object anyway.

[!1]

Umm. grizzly? However:

$nub->makeImage("img/brys_art.png", "30", "150", "masterpieces of a ge
+nious");

is equivalent to

*{"${\ref($nub)}::makeImage"}{CODE}->($nub,"img/brys_art.png", "30", "
+150", "masterpieces of a genious");

In other words, the second version has one too many parameters. Probably.

[stonecolddevin]