[RESOLVED] Class not found? Please help with simple problem

tony_l

Ok,

I must be going crazy.

I have a database connection class that I use to connect to databases.

This class is located in a directory called "includes" and is in a file called "classes.php".

This is the problem -

My script keeps saying "class DBconnect not found".

Well I went into the classes.php file and put a line of code in there that prints "Class file included". This way I KNOW the file is actually included. When I navigate to the page that includes the classes.php class AND try to declare a new object using the DBconnect class, I get the "Class file included" line - so I KNOW the class file is actually included.

So this is my question -

What else do I need to do to get this class to work?

Here is the class itself -

PRINT("Classes Included");

/* **** Database Connection Class **** */

class DBconnect
{

var $host = "localhost";
var $user = "uname";
var $pass = "pass";
var $database = "";
var $link = "";

function __construct($dbname)
{

$this->database = $dbname;
$this->link = mysql_connect($this->host,$this->user,$this->pass);

mysql_select_db($this->database,$this->link);

return $this->link;
}//end Constructor

}//end databaseConnection Class

And here is how I instantiate it -

<?php
session_start();
$org = $_SESSION['org'];

INCLUDE("http://site.com/cpanel/header.htm");
INCLUDE("http://site.com/cpanel/includes/classes.php");

//connect to database
$dbo = new DBconnect("$org");
?>

<h2>DONE</h2>

<?php
INCLUDE("http://site.com/cpanel/footer.htm");
?>

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

dagon

don't include via http. include locally by the file system

tony_l

I must be tired. Very tired in fact.

Thanks man - I really do appreciate it!

NogDog

dagon wrote:
don't include via http. include locally by the file system

It's best to include via a local filesystem call as Dagon suggests. If for some reason you need to include it from another host via http, then you need to give it a .txt suffix or otherwise force it to be served as a plain text file by the web server. If it's a .php file, the server will parse and execute it first, then all you include is the output generated by the file, which in this case is the one print statement's output.