Re: Scope woe

I think the best way is passing the object instance as a parameter to the messwithotherthings method. -- João Cândido de Souza Neto SIENS SOLUÇÕES EM GESTÃO DE NEGÓCIOS Fone: (0XX41) 3033-3636 - JS www.siens.com.br "Luke" <luke@blog-thing.com> escreveu na mensagem news:17aa29670906300114t5b95c12dk9dfdfbdfdd7f0a18@mail.gmail.com... > Hello again guys, > > I was wondering the best way to tackle the following problem: > > I've got a class, containing a property which is another object. So from > outside I should be able to do > $firstobject->propertycontainingobject->methodinsidethatobject(); > > The $firstobject variable is in the global namespace (having been made > with > $firstobject = new FirstObject;), and I'm having a problem that I'm sure > many people have when accessing it inside another class, so: > > class otherObject > { > static function messwithotherthings () > { > $firstobject->propertycontainingobject->methodinsidethatobject(); > } > } > > But $firstobject is blank, which makes sense because in there it is > pointing > to the local variable within the method. > > To solve this, I could add 'global $firstobject' inside every method, but > this is very redundant and boring. I've tried a couple of things like > adding: > > private $firstobject = $GLOBALS['firstobject']; > > But apparently that's bad syntax. I was just wondering the best way to get > around this? > > Thanks a lot for your help, > > -- > Luke Slater > :O) >