Extending classes in PHP

Hello, There's nowhere to ask questions, so I'm gonna have to go through here. I have to merge a class with another one. I tried extend, but no luck. I have an active class ( $someName = new SomeClass () ) instance, and I want to append a single function to it. This has to be done a few times. With "class newClass extends SomeClass", I don't get anything added. If I reinitialize the class as newClass, I lose all my data. In JavaScript, this issue would be resolved in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, this is PHP. To me, it looks like there is no solution to this, but I might be looking in the wrong places (such as php.net and google.com) for my answers. If this is, at all, possible, please respond. Kashidom Nenakh Mantha Designs inc. kashidom@manthadesigns.net www.manthadesigns.net