Extending a PEAR class

[Bob Brown]

Hi All,

For a project I'm working on I wanted to be able to add extra
functionality to Pear's DB class. I can add the functionality as
stand-alone functions, but as they were to do with the database
connection I thought it would make sense to wrap them up into a class
that extended the Pear::DB class.

So, I whipped this up to test:

require('DB.php ');
class BobDB extends DB {
function myfunction($par am) {
return true;
}
}

$bobdb = bobdb::connect( 'mysql://root@localhost/mydb');
return $bobdb->myfunction('he llo');

PHP liked that in terms of syntax but the reference to myfunction
returned "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: myfunction()"

Now I know this problem is something to do with calling the PEAR::DB
class statically (using the :: operator) but I'm not sure how to get
around it.

I tried going down the $bobdb = new bobdb(); path but got lost with how
PEAR creates it's own instances of it's classes.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

- Bob -

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