class and global

Hi, I'm trying to use a global object (declared at a upper level), but all I got is : Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/pooly/public_html/templeet/modules/freedb.php on line 16 part of the code is : $freedb =& new freedbaxs(); Function return_freedb_search($array) {

    global $freedb;
    [snip]
        $freedb->freedb_search($txt);

so, can I access an object allocated outside a function ? this functionis meant to be a wrapper for that class, because I cannot access directly. thanks for you help, -- Pooly ;) http://www.w-fenec.org/