Posted by Bonge Boo! on 05/27/05 19:55

On 26/5/05 8:13 pm, in article jdple.1486825$Xk.1472227@pd7tw3no, "Paul"
<freelance@dezignage.net> wrote:

>> So it seems like the $GLOBAL keyword is what is causing the problem when
>> called inside a class. Does that make sense? It can't be that I am using
>> reserved keywords can it?
>>
>
> I think the reason you're getting a parser error is nothing to do with
> globals... you're giving it a value in the wrong place... it should be
> like this...
>
> class someClass {
> var $password;
>
> function someClass() { (or __Construct() in PHP 5)
> $this->password = $GLOBALS['password'];
> }
> function someOtherFunctionInsideTheClass() {
> $password =& $this->password;
> // or you could probably even do this..
> extract($GLOBALS);
> }
> }
>
> but if you need it in every function of your class, I would just add a
> reference in the beginnign of each function.. and that's it.. (that
> shouldn't take that long...
>
> function anotherFunctionOfTheClass ($arg, $arg2) {
> $password =& $this->password;
> }
>
> maybe this will help? :)

I understand why it doesn't work. It just doesn't look very elegant have
repetitions of the same variable declarations inside each function.

I've just bunged my variable declarations in an include, then inside the
function just have:

function myfunc() {

$bignumber = $GLOBALS['number']*2.5;
return $bignumber;
}

It works. Dunno why I didn't do that to start with. Probably I'm a bit dim.

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