I have two components, called stores and deals. To simplify my code I want to reuse a number of functions from the deals component in the stores component. In my function in stores I run code similar to the following:

    function onRun()
    {
         $d = new Deals;
         $results = $d->localdeals();
         ....
    }

This results in the following error: "The component does not contain a method 'param'."

This is a result from the localdeals() function using the method:

$this->param('id')

How can I set this up so that my initiated class "deals" can access "$this->param('id')". Thanks.