I guess the first question is: Can you connect to the microsoft server
normally in that same php page?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Blake" <mblake@r...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 12:04 AM
Subject: [pro_php] Re: Assigning Functions To Variables


> Yes, I am using a class. A method within the calss connects to a database
> and I would like to use a variable (this->db_connect) that can point to
> either the mssql_connect() or mysql_connect() function.
>
> > Well, if you are using this ->, you are using classes.
> >
> > Adam Lang
> > Systems Engineer
> > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> > http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Blake" <mblake@r...>
> > To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 5:11 PM
> > Subject: [pro_php] Assigning Functions To Variables
> >
> >
> > > While viewing the example on page 140, I tried to set a variable:
> > > $this->db_connect = "mssql_connect"; I then called the function:
> > > $connection 
> > > $this->db_connect($this->servername,$this->username,$this->password);
and
> > > php reports an unidentified function. Does this only work with
function
> > > that are locally declared?
>

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