Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in constructor?

[André Somers]

Hi,

I'm having a problem that I have a hard time understanding. I am getting a
"Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object" on a constructor
of a class, that looks like this (simplified):

class phpBB_Template {
var $classname = "Template";

// Root template directory.
var $root = "";

/**
* Constructor. Simply sets the root dir.
*
*/
function phpBB_Template($root = ".")
{ /* Error is reported on this line */
$this->root = $root;
}
}

The line where the error is reported only contains the function's opening
accolade. As far as I understand, this error should only occur if I try to
access a function on a variable that is not an object, but the only
variable I am accessing, is $this, and that one is by definition an object,
right?

Please help!

André

[André Somers]

André Somers wrote:

I'm having a problem that I have a hard time understanding. I am getting a
"Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object" on a constructor
of a class, that looks like this (simplified):

Please ignore the above, I just wasn't looking hard enough. The problem was
in a different file with a very similar name... Silly me...

André

[Chris Widmer]

Hi,

your code works fine on my computer. have you tried this:

class phpBB_Template {
var $classname = "Template";

// Root template directory.
var $root; //<----change here!

/**
* Constructor. Simply sets the root dir.
*
*/
function phpBB_Template($root = ".")
{ /* Error is reported on this line */
$this->root = $root;
}
}

i think in php4 you're not supposed to declare non-constand vars like
that: var $root = "blah".


André Somers wrote:

Hi,

I'm having a problem that I have a hard time understanding. I am getting a
"Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object" on a constructor
of a class, that looks like this (simplified):

class phpBB_Template {
var $classname = "Template";

// Root template directory.
var $root = "";

/**
* Constructor. Simply sets the root dir.
*
*/
function phpBB_Template($root = ".")
{ /* Error is reported on this line */
$this->root = $root;
}
}

The line where the error is reported only contains the function's opening
accolade. As far as I understand, this error should only occur if I try to
access a function on a variable that is not an object, but the only
variable I am accessing, is $this, and that one is by definition an object,
right?

Please help!

André