class extension

ya its me again with yet another question! this one involves class extending. here is my line of code:



currently php doesn't like that and spits out this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.', expecting '{' in /home/xdba/class/xdba_connect.php on line 8. Line 8 being the line i showed you above. what I basically want to be able to do is replace DATABASE_TYPE with a variable. for example. if the type was mysql then the line should read this:



i want Mysql to be replaced with any type that I put in there. does anyone have a suggestion on how I may go about doing this? thanks again for your help!

its probally because it thinks that one of those names is a constant. try

it is a constant. and i tried it with the {} brackets and its giving me the errors of an unexpected "{" now.

You can't do it, unfortunately.

You could try the aggregation functions...:

http://au2.php.net/manual/en/ref.objaggregation.php

You should be able to use them to do what you need - just remember that they don't work on initialised classes, only their structures (meaning it will give default property values, etc etc).