Re: OO parent/child relationship

Tom Rogers wrote:

To do this I have my classes register themselves in a global array. For example a mysql class which gets used a lot does this in its constructor: function mysql_class($db='',$ini=''){ global $class_ref; $class_ref["mysql_class"] =& $this; . . . } Then any class that needs access to mysql_class does this in the constructor: class galleryClass( var $mysql; var $db = 'test'; function galleryClass(){ global $class_ref; if(!empty($class_ref['mysql_class'])):

     $this->mysql =& $class_ref['mysql_class'];

else:

     $this->mysql = new mysql_class();

endif; if(!empty($this->mysql)):

     $this->con = $this->mysql->get_handle($this->db);

endif; . . } . . } This way there is only need for 1 instance of the mysql class. I use global as a bad habit, but you can do the same with $GLOBALS['class_ref'] :)

I asked about something similar to your suggetion the other day -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=106519101018470&w=2