Re: global variables, sessions, cookie, includes

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Seth Lepzelter wrote: > I've run into a problem with this though. It seems that session > variables, and cookie data is not available to the included file. for > example: > > in the included file, > function isLoggedIn(){ > if((isset($HTTP_COOKIES_VARS['user'])) && > (isset($HTTP_COOKIES_VARS['pass']))){ > return 1; > } > return 0; > } > > returns 0 even though those cookies are there. > > however, in the top-level file, > > if(!(isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['user'])) && > (isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['pass']))){ > print_expired(); > } > > works correctly(calls print expired if the cookies are not there, and > doesnt if they are...). > > Am I missing something here? The global variables have to be declared in the function with function isLoggedIn(){ global $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS; // etc..... } before you use them in the function. That's why you see them in the main block of code but not in the function. HTH -burk -- burk@pobox.com Linux File Managers: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/linuxfile.html