$this in template of compoent's view - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support

let have component client side folder structure:

views/component/view.html.php
views/component/tmpl/default.php

in default php have function:

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function addbasepath($path)
{
  return $this->basepath . $path;
}

the problem that: $this null...

even if use global:

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function addbasepath($path)
{
  global $this;
  return $this->basepath . $path;
}

and if rename $this:

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$self = $this;

function addbasepath($path)
{
  global $self;
  return $self->basepath . $path;
}

problem don't solving.

why not way?:

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function addbasepath($thispointer, $path)
{
  return $thispointer->basepath . $path;
}
addbasepath($this, $somepath);