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Ben Alter
Ben Alter

Reputation: 99

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function when function is defined

I am getting an error in PHP:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function getCookie

Code:

include('Core/dAmnPHP.php');
$tokenarray = getCookie($username, $password);

Inside of dAmnPHP.php, it includes a function called getCookie inside class dAmnPHP. When I run my script it tells me that the function is undefined.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 47831

Answers (2)

Eric Leschinski
Eric Leschinski

Reputation: 153882

How to reproduce this error:

Put this in a file called a.php:

<?php
include('b.php');
umad();
?>

Put this in a file called b.php:

<?php
class myclass{
  function umad(){
    print "ok";
  }
}
?>

Run it:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function umad() in 
/home/el/a.php on line 4

What went wrong:

You can't use methods inside classes without instantiating them first. Do it like this:

<?php
include('b.php');
$mad = new myclass;
$mad->umad();
?>

Then the php interpreter can find the method:

eric@dev ~ $ php a.php
ok

Upvotes: 4

Maythe
Maythe

Reputation: 586

It looks like you need to create a new instance of the class before you can use its functions.

Try: $dAmn = new dAmnPHP; $dAmn->getCookie($username, $password);

I've not used dAmn before, so I can't be sure, but I pulled my info from here: https://github.com/DeathShadow/Contra/blob/master/core/dAmnPHP.php

Upvotes: 9

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