Re: Classes and Global vars

Robert, I believe that's a very pesky incompatibility between PHP3 and PHP4. You cannot instantiate class members to variables in the declaration. You instead have to put it into the constructor. Viz: $MESSAGE = "This is only a test."; class testclass { var $message; function testclass() { //the constructor GLOBAL $MESSAGE; $this->message = $MESSAGE; } // etc... } [scrounge scrounge scrounge] Ah, yes, here it is: http://www.php.net/version4/incompatibilities.php First on the list. HTH, Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Leingang http://www.math.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers University leingang@math.rutgers.edu Department of Mathematics "This signature needs no quote." On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Robert Covell wrote: > Having a heck of a time accessing vars defined in another file > (config.php3). I am using php4.0.2 and have a simple test class. > > The config file: > <? > $MESSAGE = "Test message..."; > ?> > > > The class: > <? > require("config.php3"); > class testclass > { > var $message = $MESSAGE; > > function print_message() > { > return $this->message; > } > } > ?> > > When I do: > <? > $theclass=new testclass; > echo $theclass->message; > > I get: > > Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/testclass.lib on line 6 > > Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: testclass in > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test2.php on line 5 > > > I have no idea why. Tried to include it, and just about everything I can > think of and have no idea. Any ideas... > > -Bob > > > [ Part 112: "Included Message" ] >