I am fairly new to programming PHP, however I have knowledge of a few other languages.
I am sure that there is a simple solution to this problem, but I may just be unable to see it.
Details about my setup...
PHP Version: 5.0.0
Display Errors: On
Error Level: E_ALL
Register Globals: Off
The Problem...
My thought is that the problem is to do with the scope of the a variable, but I have read the PHP article on variable scope and I am still facing the same problem.
I have a main file (index.php) and a config file (config.inc.php) both in site root. I also have a connections file (connection.inc.php) in an include folder below the root.
I am trying to include the config file to set all the site variables and then include the connections file to create a connection object for use by the rest of the index page. I am getting an error "Undefined variable: link" from index.php. The code below shows the code snippet for each file...
config.inc.php
Code: Select all
$CONF = array ();
// Site Details - Name and URL
$CONF["Site_URL"] = 'http://localhost/test/';
$CONF["Site_Name"] = "Site Name";Code: Select all
require_once("config.inc.php");
require_once($CONF["Site_URL"] . "include/connection.inc.php");
$sqlCommand = "SELECT intMenuItemID, varMenuText FROM menu";
$result = mysql_query($sqlCommand, $link);Code: Select all
$host = "localhost";
$user = "php";
$password = "php";
$database = "test";
$link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password) or die("Connection to database could not be made");
mysql_select_db($database, $link);As this does not work, I would appreciate some help in this matter.
Many thanks