Re: this oop-script still doesn't work

seems to me that you're trying to have an object's member behave as if it had global scope. you never say "$foo = new bar()". instead you say "$this->foo = new foo()" where $this is an instance of Overall. you can't instantiate a Foo as a member of an Overall instance, and then expect to talk to that Foo without going thru the instance itself (which Jonathan suggested). so, either use $overall->foo to talk to the Foo instance, or you could do this in Overall::load(): function load($class) { global $$class; $$class = new $class(); $this->$class =& $$class; } which i think will create the Foo instance in global scope, and give the Overall instance a member that is a reference to that same object. "Tularis" <tularis@xmbforum.com> wrote in message news:20021119221514.96610.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > ok, I have gotten great help here already, but it still doesn't work, > it returns a object not found error (on the $foo->bar() line). I want to > change $overall->foo->bar() to $foo->bar... any tips? or help?? > > thanx! > - Tularis > > <?php > > class overall { > var $loaded; > > function load($class){ > eval("global \$$class;"); // This didn't work either > //$this->loaded[] = $class; // see the comments with the foreach() > eval("\$this->$class = new $class;"); > return true; > } > } > > class foo { > var $bar; > > // Constructor > function bar(){ > if(!isset($this->bar)){ > $this->bar = 1; > }else{ > $this->bar++; > } > echo $this->bar."<br>"; > } > } > > // Start actual loading > $overall = new overall; > $overall->load('foo'); > > /* > foreach($overall->loaded as $key=>$val){ // didn't work.. I commented > this out, because I thought it MIGHT interfere with the other way > $val =& $overall->$val; // both don't work though :( > } > */ > > $overall->foo->bar(); > $overall->foo->bar(); > $overall->foo->bar(); > $overall->foo->bar(); > > // it doesn't understand this > $foo->bar(); > ?> >