Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Handling different classes by the same name

[Chris Weiss]

>B U T, if you call CreateObject('app.class') phpGw loades the class only
>once and saves it in the $GLOBALS['phpgw'] Object under the class-name
>only. Therefor if you call CreateObject('yourapp.DB') and other
>standard-classe already loaded 'phpgwapi.db' you will get the phpgwapi
>version, if you load your class in the phpgw-style with CreateObject.

if he doesn't but the PEAR class in the $GLOBALS['phpgw'] object then there
is no problem.  It's not likely there now and I think his goal is to not
rewrite all the DB code.