member function don't pass to class!!!???

[hasani2007]

Hello all; I am writing a tiny phone book program using classes.

using namespace std;
class phonebook{
public :
void add_new();

  private :
          char \*name;
          char \*family;
  };
  void phonebook::add\_new(){
       phonebook \*temp=new phonebook;
       cin >> temp->name;
       cin >> temp->family;
  }

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
phonebook::add_new();
system("PAUSE");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Any work I do; I can't get a name and family. my program should be dynamic. What should I do to get response? Thanks in advance...

[Lost User]

Since your code will not even compile successfully it is little wonder it doesn't work. You are making a static call to a non-static method (phonebook::add_new();), which is invalid. Try looking at your design here, every time you call add_new() you create a new phonebook object but you do not save it anywhere. Consider the contents of a real phonebook, the book contains entries and each entry contains names and numbers. So you need a collection of some sort to hold all your entries; this could be a class or one of the STL types. Perhaps you should try this without using classes as a first attempt to get the concepts right and then convert to classes later.

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash