Recap - Simple Calculator

Part of the Object Oriented Programming section of Coddy's PHP journey — lesson 9 of 91.

Challenge

Medium

Build a complete Calculator class in calculator.php that demonstrates all OOP concepts you've learned. The driver.php file will import and test your class.

Your Calculator class should include:

Property: A public $result property to store the running total
Constructor (__construct): Initialize $result to 0 and print "Calculator ready"
Destructor (__destruct): Print "Calculator shutting down"
Methods that each use $this to update and return the result:
- add($number) — adds the number to result
- subtract($number) — subtracts the number from result
- multiply($number) — multiplies result by the number
- divide($number) — divides result by the number using integer division (intdiv). If the number is 0, print "Error: Division by zero" and return the unchanged result
- clear() — resets result to 0
- getResult() — returns the current result

All arithmetic methods must return the new result after the operation.

Example usage:

require_once 'calculator.php';

$calc = new Calculator();  // prints: Calculator ready
$calc->add(5);             // result becomes 5
$calc->multiply(3);        // result becomes 15
$calc->subtract(2);        // result becomes 13
$calc->divide(0);          // prints: Error: Division by zero (result stays 13)
$calc->divide(2);          // result becomes 6 (integer division)
$calc->clear();            // result becomes 0
// When script ends: prints Calculator shutting down

Try it yourself

<?php
require_once 'calculator.php';

$testCase = trim(fgets(STDIN));

if ($testCase == "constructor_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    echo "Initial result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";
    echo "Calculator created successfully\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "addition_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $result1 = $calc->add(10);
    echo "After adding 10: " . $result1 . "\n";
    $result2 = $calc->add(5);
    echo "After adding 5: " . $result2 . "\n";
    echo "Final result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "subtraction_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(20);
    $result1 = $calc->subtract(8);
    echo "After subtracting 8 from 20: " . $result1 . "\n";
    $result2 = $calc->subtract(2);
    echo "After subtracting 2: " . $result2 . "\n";
    echo "Final result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "multiplication_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(5);
    $result1 = $calc->multiply(4);
    echo "After multiplying by 4: " . $result1 . "\n";
    $result2 = $calc->multiply(2);
    echo "After multiplying by 2: " . $result2 . "\n";
    echo "Final result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "division_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(100);
    $result1 = $calc->divide(4);
    echo "After dividing by 4: " . $result1 . "\n";
    $result2 = $calc->divide(5);
    echo "After dividing by 5: " . $result2 . "\n";
    echo "Final result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "division_by_zero_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(50);
    echo "Initial value: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";
    $result = $calc->divide(0);
    echo "Result after division by zero: " . $result . "\n";
    echo "Value unchanged: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "clear_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(25);
    $calc->multiply(3);
    echo "Before clear: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";
    $result = $calc->clear();
    echo "After clear: " . $result . "\n";
    echo "Current result: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} elseif ($testCase == "comprehensive_test") {
    $calc = new Calculator();
    $calc->add(10);
    $calc->multiply(3);
    $calc->subtract(5);
    $calc->divide(5);
    echo "After sequence of operations: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";
    $calc->divide(0);
    echo "After division by zero attempt: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";
    $calc->clear();
    $calc->add(100);
    echo "After clear and add 100: " . $calc->getResult() . "\n";

} else {
    echo "Unknown test case\n";
}

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