Uncaught Error: Using $this when not in object context

Question

I am going through an older module created in PHP 5.x.x and we have just moved the website to the php 7.2.x so we suddenly got the error in a helper class

Uncaught Error: Using $this when not in object context in

There is a dispatch event in helper that is using the following code there:

Mage::dispatchEvent('magento_string_filter_before', array('content' => $contentObj, 'object' => $params['object'], 'params' => $params, 'helper' => $this));

and i believe that is not compatible with the PHP 7 so how i can convert this and what replacement we have?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have pass the object of the helper as like

replacing $this with following:

Mage::getSingleton('my_helper_here');

and code looks like this now and working fine for.

Mage::dispatchEvent('magento_string_filter_after', array('content' => $contentObj, 'object' => $params['object'], 'params' => $params, 'helper' => Mage::getSingleton('my_helper_here')));