note 41225 added to language.variables.scope

I am trying to make a weather web service using the nuSOAP and XML libs. I have created a class and worked on it for a while and I am stuck on parsing the xml file into the new object. I am trying to make a method in a class called readXML($file) however the XML parser wants param's to some local functions so I nested them. This works fine but I don't have access to the outer class vars/methods or outer function vars. I have created a test class to illistrate my situation. Code: class foo { // this var needs to be accessed by nested function "nbar()" var $i; // Constructor function foo() { $this->i = 100; } // this function needs to be accessed by nested function "nbar()" function roo() { echo "function roo()"; } // bar test funct access to class vars from nested class functions. function bar() { $j = 12; function nbar() { global $j; // Cannot access $j var from herer "global" does not work echo "(nbar) j = ".$j." <br>\n"; $j++; // Cannot access var $i either. echo "(nbar) i = ".$this->i." <br>\n"; //Access function roo() from here ???? des not work. //$this->roo(); // Generates error (how do I bring it into scope of this function) } nbar(); // No vars can be passed to the func. (one of the constraints) echo "(bar) j = ".$j."<br>\n"; } } The comments explain where the problems lie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+41225 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+41225&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+41225&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php