PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object...

Hi,

If I've got a class with a method that uses PEAR's Mail class, why 
wouldn't this work  ???

// mail_test.php

require_once("Mail.php");

class users { // open the class definition

 /**
        * PEAR mail object
        *
        * @var object
        * @access private
        */
        var $_oMail;
        
	// CONSTRUCTOR 
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

        /**
        * class constructor
        *
        * @param integer user id [optional]
        * @access public
        */
        function users(') {

                // implement pear mail object
                $this->_oMail =& Mail::factory("mail");

                if (PEAR::isError($this->_oMail)) {

                        catchExc($this->_oMail->getMessage());
                }

        }

        **
        * send email notification
        *
        * @param string $sBody email body
        * @return boolean
        * @access private
        */
        function _notifyUser($sBody) {

                // assign mail properties
                $aUser = $this->getUser();
                $aHeaders["To"] = $sRecipients = $aUser["Email"];
                $aHeaders["From"] = ENTITY." Admin <".EMAIL.">";
                $aHeaders["Subject"] = ENTITY." System Account Notification";
                $aHeaders["Priority"] = "3";

                // try to send mail
		if (PEAR::isError($mailTmp = $this->_oMail->send($sRecipients, 
$aHeaders, $sBody))) {
                        catchExc($mailTmp->getMessage());
                return false;
                }
                
                return true;
        }
}

The code above has been stripped down, but I always get this error when 
anything tries to call the notifyUser() method:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function on a non-object in 
/Library/WebServer/Documents/mail_test.php

If I remove the actual line that sends the email, then everything works 
fine, but, obviously, the email never gets sent!

why doesn't $this->_oMail appear to be part of the class ???? Is that 
the problem ??

Thanks in advance,

Jon


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