Re: Static Member Variables holding objects w/methods

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, August 16, 2006 9:13 am, Gabe wrote:

I'm trying to use the following method of a class (DbConnector): public function closeConnector() {

      //
      echo "<p>in closeConnector()";
      var_dump(DbConnector::$connector);

What is $connector ??? Perhaps you want DbConnector::connector

      echo "</p>";

//make sure the db object is cleaned up properly if ( gettype(DbConnector::$connector) == 'object' ) { echo "<br><br>close the ADOdb connection<br><br>"; DbConnector::$connector->Close();

Try it without the $ If that's not it, try: $connector = DbConnector::$connector; $connector->Close(); Sometimes PHP is not so good at -> chasing down a tree... Or, at least, it used to be not so good at that... I suspect that's been fixed for ages, but worth a shot.

}

      //put things back the way they were found
      $this->connector = false;
    }

DbConnector is meant to be a singleton class that manages an ADOdb object. However, when the code executes and it gets to this line: DbConnector::$connector->Close(); the script fails and says "Call to undefined method DbConnector::Close()" Is trying to call the Close() method of the static member var (which holds an ADOdb object) not possible? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Actually I found that I should use this notation: self::$connector->Close(); And my class method wasn't static. So I couldn't access the static member. Details, details.... =)