Bootstrapping: $wire is null?

[MarcC]

I just received this in an email from a developer I'm working with:

...in my code, after including/bootstrapping as per his site, I can use (for example) wire('pages') but not $wire->pages. The docs say I should be able to use either way, but for me $wire is NULL.

Any idea what might be going wrong? Thanks.

[Soma]

It works (always) for me. Maybe some other things included that is disturbing?

[ryan]

I don't think there's any way for us to tell why $wire isn't working without seeing the code context where it's not working. I have a feeling he's trying to use $wire from within a function or class, and it's out of scope. But I would suggest using the wire() function either way, as that's going to be more portable in most use cases.