Re: Call to a member function on a non-object

aaron wrote: 
function sidebar($sbtitle,$sbmain,$sbfooter){
global $sbtitle, $sbmain, $sbfooter;
$template->set_filenames(array(
         'sidebar' => 'sidebar.tpl')
      );
$template->assign_vars(array( 'SBHEADER' => $sbheader,
                              'SBMAIN' => $sbmain,
                              'SBFOOTER' => $sbfooter

							  ));
$template->pparse('sidebar');

}

sidebar('MYTITLE','MAIN','Footer');

What am I doing wrong here? I recieve the Call to a member function
error.
My main goal is to create a little side bar that can be called with the
three variables. So that when using a template engine on the main page
I can diplay several of these "sidebar" with different contents. This
is what I am working towards on the main PHP page so that I can just
have {LASTTHUMB} AND {LASTBLOG} where ever I want in the .tpl page
$template->set_filenames(array(
         'body' => 'main_body.tpl')
      );
$template->assign_vars(array( 'COLOR' => $my_color,
                            'LASTTHUMB' => sidebar('PhotoTitle',
'Myphoto','PhotoFooter'),
                            'LASTBLOG' =>
sidebar('BlogTitle','Blog','Blogfooter')
       							  ));

$template->pparse('body');

First of all I don't understand why you simultaneously try to parse the variables [title main & footer] in the function call AND refer to the GLOBAL versions of the same variables. In my PHP setup this induces an error.

Further I assume $template is an instance of a certain class. Then you try to invoke a MEMBER function (or method) of that class, but sidebar() seems to be a global function. If not, and it IS in te class, your first call to it is not allowed, for the opposite reason.

But I may be misinterpreting all of this...
Does this help at all?
Sh
.