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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:29:36+00:00

I have quite a lot of PHP view files, which I used to include

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I have quite a lot of PHP view files, which I used to include in my controllers using simple include statements. They all use methods declared in a view class which they get like $view->method(); However I recently decided that it would be better if the including would also be done by this view class. This however changes the scope of the included file so that $view is no longer defined. Here is a code example:

in someViewFile.php (BOTH siuations)     <html>     <head><title><?php echo $view->getAppTitle(); ?></title>     etc. OLD SITUATION in controller:     $view = new view;     include('someViewFile.php'); //$view is defined in someViewFile.php NEW SITUATION in controller:     $view = new view;     $view->show('someViewFile'); //$view is not defined in someViewFile.php

Right now I hacked my way around the problem using this in the view class:

public function show($file){     $view = &$this;     include($file.'.php'); }

Is there anyway to declare the scope of the inluded file or is this the best way of solving the problem?

These examples are off coarse simplified.

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  1. You can’t change include() scope, no, so your method is probably about as good as it gets in the situation you’re describing. Though I’d skip the ugly PHP4-compat ampersand, myself.

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