RE: [PEAR] new class screwup

Your extended class inherits getAuth() from the parent Auth class, so there's no need to override it like this, and you can't override it in any case, since getAuth() calls a private Auth method (i.e., _importGlobalVariable()) and therefore can't be called statically. Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: jsWalter [mailto:jsWalter@torres.ws] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:55 AM > To: pear-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PEAR] new class screwup > > I've been building an exended Class to Auth the past few days, and making > great progress. > > Until tonight. > > The class does not work now. :( > > I have no idea what I did. > > I've reduced my login logic to this... > > $objAuth->start(); > > if ($objAuth->getAuth()) > header("Location:success.php"); > else > echo '<div>Unsuccessful attempt, please try again.<p > /></div>'; > > ... display my login screen... > > > I have reduced getAuth() to this... > > function getAuth() > { > // call PEAR::Auth getAuth() method > Auth::getAuth(); > } > > A simple pass through! > > The script logic tells me it failed! > > But! If I 'X' out the method name like this... > > function XXgetAuth() > { > // call PEAR::Auth getAuth() method > Auth::getAuth(); > } > > Making my script logic call back to the orginal getAuth() method in Auth, > I > get the success page! > > I really don't understand that! > > Not one bit. > > I guess I don't understand OOP-PHP as well as I thought I did. > > Any ideas? > > Walter > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php