Calling PHP Class Function In My Page - php

Question

I have a class file: we'll call it class.php. The functionality of that is to grab info from an ini file (yeah, I posted the question about security and was given the great suggestion to use either a config file or an ini file to hold the DB information).
Essentially, my class is this:
<?php
class myClass
{
public function getAttached()
{
$file = "../../myFile.ini";
if (!$settings = parse_ini_file($file, TRUE)) throw new exception('Unable to open ' . $file . '.');
$hoost = $settings['mysqli']['default_host'];
$useer = $settings['mysqli']['default_user'];
$pazz = $settings['mysqli']['default_pw'];
$dbs = $settings['mysqli']['default_db'];
$con = mysqli_connect($hoost ,$useer, $pazz, $dbs);
return $con;
}
}
$obj = new myClass();
$obj->getAttached();
$vals = $obj->getAttached();
//echo $vals; //didn't know if I should echo this or not.
?>
I want to call this in my somePage.php file to make my "mysqli" connection and go from there...
I tried this:
require_once('class.php');
getAttached();
Obviously that didn't work (I knew it wouldn't but - I did it anyway just to see if "maybe"), so - how do I call that function from my class file in the regular php page?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to make an instance of the class before calling the functions as they're not static.
require_once('class.php');
$myClass = new myClass();
$myClass-> getAttached();
or, like I said above you could make the function static.
public static function myFunction() {
//etc...
}
Then to call it you would use:
require_once('class.php');
myClass::getAttached();

Answer 2

You have to instanciate your class first, the same way you did it in you class.php file:
$myclass = new myClass();
$myClass->getAttached();
Note that if your method can be used without any relation with your class, you could make it static:
public static function getAttached() {
// ...
}
And use it without having to instanciate your class:
myClass::getAttached();

Answer 3

Your getAttached() method within the myClass ,create the instance for the class and call
the function
$call = new myClass();
$call->getAttached();

Answer 4

Given answers are correct, but if you keep your class file as you posted, you have object already in $obj so there is no need to make new one. If it is just temporary you can ignore my post.
One more thing:
$obj->getAttached(); // this line is not needed, as you call this function in next line
$vals = $obj->getAttached();