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Subject: Re: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object
From: karsten@typo3.org (Karsten Dambekalns)

Hi.

Christopher Vogt wrote:
> I fetch records a database. Sometime it happens that a record does not
> exist anymore. Let's assume it's a user, then $user will be NULL.
> 
> echo $user['fullname']; // no error at all, $user['fullname'] === NULL
> 
> Shouldn't this at least trigger a Notice?

Check your error handling settings, probably warnings/notices are disabled.

> echo $user->get_fullname(); // Fatal error

Well, is $user an object? If not, well, better not call a method on it.

Regards,
Karsten

PS: I am not sure this is a topic for php.internals...