Re: Re: global scope issue

does it matter if a global command has bee issued before with vars other than the $test var? i.e before the include if there is a global $somevar; -Shawn "Curt Zirzow" <curt@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote in message news:20030813152344.GH462@bagend.shire... > * Thus wrote Ford, Mike [LSS] (M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk): > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ivo Fokkema [mailto:I.F.A.C.Fokkema@LUMC.nl] > > > Sent: 13 August 2003 15:45 > > > > > > "Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message > > > news:20030813142705.28520.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > > > > As far as I know, no defined variable is global by default. > > > If you would > > > really need this variable to be global, you'll need to do a > > > > > > global $test; > > > > > > to make $test global. > > > > Absolute rubbish!! ALL variables used in the global scope are automatically > > global and available in the superglobal array $GLOBALS. You're confusing > > this with the issue that global variables are not automatically accessible > > within functions but must be "imported" with the global statement. (And a > > global statement in the gloabl scope has absolutely no effect whatsoever.) > > I also believe php gives a warning/error about globaling a global > var in global scope. > > Curt > -- > "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."