Session/Class help

All,

I'm currently building a custom Content Management system for a site we're
working on, and am stuck. Currently, I am using a couple of classes to run
most of the queries throughout the application. Well, I'm pretty stuck now.

What I need to do is use a variable throughout my classes that is a Session
variable. I really can't find another solution. The syntax I was using for
this variable before (I actually hard coded it during my testing and
development before this point) was this:

class C_DisplayContent{

 var $username = "S_";

function foo(){
    //code that uses the variable as $this->username
}//end foo

}//end class

So, what I really need now is to have the variable look like this:

var $username = $_SESSION['username'];

and be able to use it like normal using the $this->username syntax. However,
PHP seems to blow up at it. I've tried numerous ways of doing this
syntactically and I always end up with errors. The current error I'm getting
is:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in

The line is of course the line where I'm assigning the variable.

What am I missing in regards to using session variables within a class? Any
help is appreciated.
Received on Mon May 1 02:24:05 2006