PEAR::setErrorHandling

Hi everybody, I have a problem with setErrorHandling. I wish to switch error handler while executing a piece of code. So I wrote something like : class test extends PEAR { function init() { PEAR::setErrorHandling(PEAR_ERROR_CALLBACK, 'temp_error_handler'); $this->mymethod (); // mymethod is executing some parsing,etc;.. PEAR::setErrorHandling(PEAR_ERROR_CALLBACK, 'error_handler'); } } ==> And the error handler is set to $this instead of been set as global ??? If you look at the beginning of the PEAR::setErrorHandling method you read : if (isset($this) && is_a($this, 'PEAR')) { $setmode = &$this->_default_error_mode; $setoptions = &$this->_default_error_options; } else { $setmode = &$GLOBALS['_PEAR_default_error_mode']; $setoptions = &$GLOBALS['_PEAR_default_error_options']; } .... This means that if you call PEAR::setErrorHandling within an object, the error handler is assigned to the current object rather that to the global handler. How can I switch the global ErrorHandler within a object method ? Is it the way it is supposed to work ? thanks for your help fbm