Interesting error

influx

function email_checker($tess)
{
   $name_check = $db_object->query("SELECT m_email FROM mail_list WHERE m_username = '{$_SESSION['username']}' AND m_email = '$tess'");
   $name_checkk = $name_check->numRows();
   if ($name_checkk != 0) //if number of rows isn't 0, there obviously is already a row with that same username
   {
       return false;
   }
}

What could be wrong with this code? I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/website.com/test.php on line 206 (the first line in the function after the opening { bracket)

devinemke

$db_object is not available within the variable scope of your fucntion. read up on Variable scope.

influx

Is there a substitute I can use that is a global variable? Is there a way to make $db_object global? Should I take a different approach?

devinemke

influx wrote:
Is there a way to make $db_object global?

do you bother reading the link i posted?

superwormy

I'll post the link again in case he missed it the first time:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

You could alternatively pass the $db_object as a parameter to the function...