Use global variables in a class

Question

I\'m trying to create a pagination class and use a variable from outside the class.

But it\'s giving me the fatal error \"Call to a member function query() on a non-

Answer 1

The other answers thus far are definitely preferable to using a global since that will ruin your encapsulation (eg you'd need to have that object defined prior to calling that method).

It's much better to enforce that in the method signature or not use a class.