$this Out of Context
 

Having a wierd problem with a class i'm trying to write

[PHP]
public static function getID($username)
{
$username = $this->db->escape($username);//this line erros
$sql = "SELECT u_id FROM ".$this->settings['users_table']."WHERE "
.$this->settings['username_col']."='".$username."'";
$res = $this->db->query($sql);
$res = $this->db->fetchArray($res);
$id = $res['u_id'];
return $id;
}
[/PHP]

The error message "Using $this when not in object context". Not really sure what I'm doing wrong, and I used the same line in other lines and it does not error.

Thanks

[PHP] $sql = "SELECT u_id FROM ".$this->settings['users_table']."WHERE ";[/PHP]

shouldnt that code be like that.

I don't think so, as he is connecting it to the string below that line with the "." operator.

The onlt thing that is wrong with that line is there needs to be a space between the " and the W in where.

The problem was because the method is static it has no instance, I wasn't aware things worked like that mabey it is a wrinkle in PHP's OOP model.

Static methods don't have instances; that's why they're made static - share and share alike.