RE: [PHP] Getting data in and out of functions?

On 12-May-2003 Derrick Fogle wrote: > I'm really struggling with passing information both in to and out of > functions. I've turned to using include() as a replacement to functions > sometimes because I need to pass a lot of data in to a function, and > get lots of data back out of it, and I can't seem to figure out the > trick. > > I'm OK with using > function errorcheck($val1, $val2, $val3) { > # blahblahblah > } > errorcheck($val1, $val2, $val); > > to get values into a function, but I need to do error checking and > correction on those values, and return all that data plus controls > (were there any errors in the data? if so, which ones?). Returning all > that data back to the rest of the code is where I get lost. > > If anyone could help de-mystify this for me, I'd sure appreciate it. > http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.arguments.by- reference Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.