PHP claims that class was defined twice

Hey there i noticed sometinh quite odd when trying to include a class definition: There are several classes in the project in question. Every class resides i a separate file that gets included. When i call the following method function mRenderPrintNav($client) { show_var("",get_declared_classes());//debugcode include($this->pApp->pPath."/".$this->pApp->pCommonPath."/layernav.cls.php"); //include the class definition $menu=new Menu; $this->mRenderNavWalk($client,&$menu); $menu->printMenu(); } PHP complains Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class menu in ..//_common/layernav.cls.php on line 3 ok i started checking if i include the file twice, ich wrote some chars before the first <? in the class file, and i see the chars once, but not twicw. There is no other class called menu in the same project. So i checked the defined classes with PHP's get_declared_classes(). if i check the declared classes *before* the include it says that the class Menu is defined. if i uncomment the include (it is called after get_declared_classes()) the class is not defined at all. weird.i dont get it. maybe you do thank you guys Jens -- Grüße aus dem schönen Kleve Jens Kisters rosomm et partner Agentur für neue Medien GmbH Dienstleistungszentrum am Weißen Tor - Eingang B Gocher Landstrasse 2 47551 Kleve / Bedburg-Hau Telefon: 02821 - 97856-20 Telefax: 02821 - 97856-77 j.kisters@rosomm-partner.de http://www.rosomm-partner.de