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include outside of a function

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:03 pm
by defx
Is it possible to include a file, then later inside of a function, use a variable listed inside the included file? I tried it and it said that my variable was not definied. so i ended up having to include the file in the function.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:05 pm
by Dr Evil
Could you show me some code?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:58 pm
by defx
what I did is i created a file called cfg.php:

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<? $var1 = "variable 1"; ?>
then in a seperate file:

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<? include ("cfg.php");

Function function1()
{
echo "$var1";
}
?>
and it did not work :o

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:05 pm
by mikegotnaild
good question

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:14 pm
by markl999
You would have to do :

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<? include_once 'cfg.php'; 

function function1() 
{ 
    global $var1;
    echo $var1; 
} 
?>

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:13 am
by Dr Evil
Thanks Mark 'Connery' 999 beat me to it.