Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/29/05 01:56

mail wrote:
>>Norbert Wenzel wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, i have a very strange example of code. Maybe you know where my
>>>mistake could be.
>>>
>>>I've got an index.php with a few div's and a short php code, like:
>>><div>echo $_SESSION['view']->getContent();</div>
>>>
>>>The view is in every case one of my view objects. And there's the problem.
>>>
>>>In my specific case $_SESSION['view'] is of class "NoLoggedUserView",
>>>which of course extends "View". The "View" class containts a few public
>>>methods, namely
>>>
>>> getTitle()
>>> getHeadline()
>>> getSelection()
>>> getSubselection()
>>> getContentHeadline()
>>> getContent()
>>> getFunctions()
>>>
>>>The child class "NoLoggedUserView" contains only the
>>>getContent()-method, which provides a login window.
>>>
>>>But of course I still call all the other methods like getTitle() in my
>>>index.php.
>>>
>>>Until yesterday I encountered no problems with that, but today, if i
>>>call $noLoggedUserView->getTitle() in the index.php i get an empty
>>>document. No error, no warning, no notice ... nothing. The page stays
>>>the same and doesn't change. Even the timestamp I print out to check if
>>>there has been a change, doesn't change.
>>>
>>>I tested a few things:
>>>The page loads fine and without any problems, if the public method
>>>getTitle() is written in the NoLoggedUserView and the method returns a
>>>stupid string. If getTitle() in NoLoggedUserView looks like this
>>
>>did you try letting the parent class method just return a string constant?
>
>
> The method in parent class just returns a string constant. I'm at home right no, but as far as I remeber it looks pretty much like this:
> public function getTitle() { //in parent class View
> return 'My Company:';
> }
>
>>> public function getTitle() {
>>> return parent::getTitle();
>>> }
>>>there is the same problem as before. I get an empty page, no changes are
>>>made.
>>>
>>>My current version of getTitle() looks like this:
>>
>>current version in NoLoggedUserView I presume, whats the definition
>>in the parent class?
>
> yes, in no logged user view.
> See the parent class above.
>
>>> public function getTitle() {
>>> //return 'NoLoggedTitle'; // works great
>>> //return parent::getTitle(); // no changes are made
>>
>>what if there is no parent?
>
> there is, because it's just a test to see if i get this working. until yesterday i just called $_SESSION['view']->getTitle() and since this was an instance of View the method should be at least available in View.
>

what did you upgrade? when was the last time you rebooted (assuming windows ;-)?
maybe give your webserver a restart?

>
> I would like to do so, but the page doesn't even load a blank page on error. the page stays the same as it was before, so if do reload nothing happens, just as if the page doesn't get compiled or so.
> but then again, if i change the page, so it doesn't need to call any parent:: stuff, it compiles and loads without any errors.
>
> so it looks like the page isn't even compiled when calling parent:: ...

nonsense me thinks - its crashing somwhow. if you turn off output buffering
and echo stuff out prior to the fatal call you should get some output.

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