Problem with putting require_once() in a class function concerning objects...

[Balagi]

Here is a sample of the code I'm trying to fix.  I create an object $a and want to be able to use that same object on other pages that I load (require_once) through a function.

[code]
<?php
// index.php
class A {
  function load_page($page) {
    require_once($page . '.php');
  }
}

$a = new A;

echo $a; // prints Object id #1 as it should

$a->load_page('test'); /* If I replace this line with require_once('test.php'); the A object will carry over, but that's not what I'm trying to do */

?>
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[code]
<?php
// test.php
echo "test text"; // prints "test text", I just added this to make sure the file was being loaded
echo $a; // prints nothing, this is what I'm trying to fix.. I want this to print Object id #1 like it did on index.php
?>
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I'm pretty new to class/object orriented programming, but basically I want my A object that was defined to index.php to carry on to other pages that I load with my $a->load(); function.