Re: extending a class using includes not working

Charles Kline wrote:

On May 25, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, May 25, 2005 11:30 am, Charles Kline said:

i have 2 class files. say for example. class 1 class 2 extends class 1 class 2 uses include_once("firstclass.php")

include, require, etal are not functions exactly... therefore the brackets are not required, in case you didn't know. more importantly I would suggest that the include statement in your class or where ever should be a require(_once) statement - because without the first class the second class cannot be used (i.e. firstclass is required!). require_once 'firstclass.php';

then i use include_once ("secondclass.php") in my template. this does not work. to get it to work, i must put both the files as includes in my template. any ideas why?

Could you define "does not work" a little more precisely? Do you get error messages? What do the error messages say? Is there any output at all? Does your computer blow up? What?

Sorry I should have been more specific (or course)... The template does not load. I get no error messages of any kind. Both classes function fine when included into the template separately - but when in include the secondclass.php which in turn includes firstclass.php the page does not load.

sounds a bit like a problem related to your include_path .... its possible that the firstclass.php cannot be found in the include path from within secondclass.php OR maybe a different file is being found (a file also called firstclass.php but containing so kind of error) what does the following show you? (if you place it in your code): <? var_dump( ini_get("include_path") ); ?> btw I see such a problem regularly, that is - a require_once statement fails because the file was not found and the script terminates with no errors (ANYWHERE!) ps - what the heck is a 'template' in your world? pps - do you have error reporting turned up fully? are you logging and/or outputing errors at all?

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