How to include in Classes

[e_covert]

Hi all,
I'm trying to create a simple class that will set a bunch of default values and do some other things as well.
The glitch is that for ease of configuration, I want to store these default values in a separate file and just include them in my class, but this is creating errors for me.
ie:
config.php:
<?php
$CONFIG_VAR1 = "default"
?>

class.php:
<?php
class myClass
{
include ("config.php");
var $var1

function myClass($var1=$CONFIG_VAR1)
{
$this->var1=$var1;
}
}
?>

I'm getting this error:
parse error, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION' orT_FUNCTION' or T_VAR' or'}''

in relation to the line
'include("config.php");'

and it doesn't seem to make a difference if I put the include line outside of the class.
Are there issues with including external files in a class? It seems to me this should be possible, but I am fairly new to php, so any guidance would be much appreciated 🙂
Thanks,
Eric

[e_covert]

I discovered the problem, still don't know what to do about it. There seems to be a problem trying to set the default value of a function variable to equal another variable.
ie: function myFunction($var1=$otherVar){}

Does anyone know what can be done about this? Is it possible and I just don't know how?

[Anon]

You're missing a semicolon in config.php.
And one on the line after the include() statement.

[Anon]

PHP won't allow you to specify variables as default values - only constants can be specified as default values. You'd have to do it manually:

function myFunction($var1 = NULL) {
global $otherVar;
if ($var1 == NULL) $var1 = $otherVar;
// do something else...
}

Diego

[e_covert]

Thanks Diego 🙂 That did help a lot. As you can tell I'm fairly new to PHP but I have big ideas 🙂