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Bad class to singleton error when extending PageComment class


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ivanhoe

Community Member, 2 Posts

11 December 2008 at 5:14am

I'm trying to add a couple of extra DB fields to page comments, but I've got totally stuck with the error from the title. Code in questions is:

class OurPageComment extends PageComment {
static $db = array(
"Company" => "Varchar(100)",
"Email" => "Varchar(255)",
"Homepage" => "Varchar(255)",
);
}

As you can see I've just tried extending PageComment the same way it's done with other classes in tutorials/docs, but it obviously can't be done that way.

Error trace (when I go to /db/build/..):

* Bad class to singleton() - OurPageComment
Line 263 of Core.php
* singleton(OurPageComment)
Line 161 of DatabaseAdmin.php
* DatabaseAdmin->doBuild()
Line 81 of DatabaseAdmin.php
* DatabaseAdmin->build(HTTPRequest)
Line 162 of Controller.php
* Controller->handleAction(HTTPRequest)
Line 107 of RequestHandler.php
* RequestHandler->handleRequest(HTTPRequest)
Line 122 of Controller.php
* Controller->handleRequest(HTTPRequest)
Line 257 of Director.php
* Director::handleRequest(HTTPRequest,Session)
Line 106 of Director.php
* Director::direct(db/build)
Line 111 of main.php

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ivanhoe

Community Member, 2 Posts

11 December 2008 at 7:18am

Ok, I managed to solve the problem, the class that extends PageComment has to be in a separate file. I had it defined in the same file where my page class is defined and SS couldn't find it there obviously.