Why is -> breaking my code ?

[lanny]

You would surely think I could search on this and get the semantics right - but I had no luck.

I am using a class (Calendar.php) and I override one function in that class. Works great in my komodo environment. Now I am trying to include it in my web site ...

When I copy the driver program (ctest.php) which contains "require Calendar.php" the code stops executing (starts printing itself on the screen) at the first line which uses ->
like in:

cal = new MyCalendar;
.
.
.
cal->setStartDay(1);

start showing on the screen from setDay ... on. But I get no error on the "require" statement.

[NogDog]

Assuming there's not some silly little typo sort of thing going on, the first odd thought that popped into my mind is that the parser is treating "->" as a closing tag (same as "?>"), though I've never heard of that before. Only things I can think of are making sure your source file has been saved as plain ASCII text and was FTP'd to the server in ASCII mode (as opposed to Binary mode) in case some strange character is throwing things out of whack, or else re-compiling/re-installing PHP on the offending host. 🙁

[lanny]

Thank you for this super fast response. I just copy and paste the source and there is no typos. I am running it on the same (local) server, but from a different document root.

But your suggestion makes enormous sense, actually testing it proves you are right.
The problem is, how do I get it NOT interpreted as a closing tag.

[bradgrafelman]

What version of PHP are both servers running?

EDIT: Nog also has a good point about uploading the file (if any uploading was involved) in plain ASCII format. Make sure you did this.

[lanny]

As I said, this is on the same server! PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Sep 8 2006 10:25:04) .