Question

I am converting a my site to PDO and after about 200 scripts I am very near the end. Every script accesses the same functions script. Within the functions script I have a Database class which looks like so:

class Database {
    private $db_con = ''; //stores the connection

    public function db_login(){
        //log into the database
    }
    public function db_control($query, $params){
        //run the query
    }
}
//initiate the class and log in
$db = new Database();
$db->db_login();

Both of these functions work fine and for every type of query, hence why I am almost finished. However, I have run into a problem.

I have a standalone function on a script I am working on which is used several times within the script. I usually run the db_control:

$results = $db->db_control($query, $params);

But running it from within a function:

function func(){
    $results = $db->db_control($query, $params);
}

Returns the error.

Fatal error: Call to a member function db_control() on a non-object in
C:….php on line 39

What am I doing wrong? The class is definitely being initiated as other queries on the script work fine when this function is removed. How can I access db_control() from within a standalone function?

Thank you,
Joe

Answer 1

$db is not available within the function scope, you could

Pass $db as an argument

function func($db, $query, $params){
    return $db->db_control($query, $params);
}
$results = func($db, $query, $params);

Or

function func($query, $params){
    global $db;
    return $db->db_control($query, $params);
}
$result = func($query, $params);

Use global to make it available within the function, there’s probably other solutions too!