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Can I put include or require inside a class definition?

Jun 14th, 1999 07:00
Nathan Wallace, Rod Kreisler

No.

You just can't put anything inside a class definition EXCEPT variable
and function definitions.

The following code is *not* legal:

    <?
    class Database {

      /* properties */
      var $db_path;
      var $db_id;
      var $db_fields;

      /* Services */
      require("open.inc");
      require("close.inc");

    }
    ?>


To clarify, the following code *does* work.  This because all we have in
the class are variable and function definitions; the require() is inside
the function definition for open().

    <?
    class Database {

      /* properties */
      var $db_path;
      var $db_id;
      var $db_fields;

      /* Services */
      function open($db_path,$access) {
          require("open.inc");
      }
    }
    ?>