Illuminatus
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I'm brand new to OOP and I have a question that's gotta be pretty damn basic, but I'm having trouble explaining it in a concise way so it's hard to search for answers.I have an application that supports credit card processing and I want to abstract the processing capabilities so I can add other providers (linkpoint, authorize.net, etc). I think what I want to do is create a simple class that looks something like this:\[code\]class credit { function __construct($provider){ // load the credit payment class of $provider }}\[/code\]Then I'll have the providers each extend this class, eg\[code\]class linkpoint extends credit { }\[/code\]But I really want to use the credit class more like an interface, sort of. I don't want a credit object, I want to do something like:\[code\]$credit = new credit('linkpoint');\[/code\]Then I want $credit to be an instance of the linkpoint class. Or at least, I want all the methods to execute the code defined in the linkpoint class.What's the best way to approach that? Or is there a better way to do it?