What do this called in PHP

Question

In laravel a code like the following may be found:

return View::make('hello')->with('name', $name);

What I know is that:

• View is a class
• make is one method of the class View
• 'hello' is a parameter passed to the method make

What I don't know is: with does it a method of method?! does it a PHP keyword? or does it something defined (if it is, what is its definition?) in the make method?

Answer 1

class View() {
  protected $name;
  public function __construct($name){$this->name = $name;}
  public function with($s, $p){return $this;}
  public static function make($name){
    return new self($name);
  }
}

make - static method of a class
with - method of View object

Look at View::make('hello')->with('name', $name); as at followed:

$view = View::make('hello');
$view->with('name', $name);

return $thisin with method allows us to followed:

View::make('hello')->with('name1', $name1)
                   ->with('name2', $name2)
                   ->with('name3', $name3);

This pattern named chaining