note 44189 deleted from language.functions by peehaa

Note Submitter: jose at rondamagazine dot com ---- A PHP4 -> PHP5 migration issue: In PHP5, you can't declare a function inside a class method and call it from inside the method. An example: <?php class A { function f() { function inside_f() { echo "I'm inside_f"; } echo "I'm f"; inside_f(); } } ?> PHP5 reports an "Fatal error: Non-static method A::inside_f() cannot be called statically ..." Solution: Convert inside_f() to a class method, so you can call it from f() as $this->inside_f(). This will work in PHP4 and PHP5. And, if you don't mind PHP4 compatibility, you should probably declare inside_f() as a private method, because it is declared inside f() for its private use (at least, that's what I believed I was doing; only now have I discovered that the original inside_f(), as declared, is a global function).