Problem accessing an array inside if/switch

One of my co-workers posted this to PHPBuilder, and I'm posting it here. It's a problem that's baffling the snot out of us. It's an array that you can print_r() from outside an if or switch/case statement, but from inside, it seems unaccessible. His post follows: <quote> Ok Background: Database: MS SQL PHP: PHP 5 RC1 $block_data is pulled from the database and stored earlier on. The datatype of ranges is int. $events is a multi-dimensional array also pulled from the database. Problem: Whenever I try to print the varible $events inside an ( if ) statement or a ( case ) statement it appers to be blank, or inaccessible. <code> $myBlock = $block_data[0]["ranges"];

//$myBlock= 6;    // Un-comment this and the print_r($events) inside the if statement prints out correctly.
//$myArray = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);    //Change the print_r($events) inside to $myArray and uncomment this and it works fine.

print_r($events);    // This prints out fine.

if ($myBlock == 6) {

    echo $block_data[0]["ranges"]."<br>";    // This has a value of 6
    print_r($events);    // This prints out Array()

}

print_r($events);    // This prints out fine.

</code> As you see it appears that the problem lies some how with two varibles that are pulled from the database. However, it should not make a difference as they are both correctly set before AND after the if statement. Any ideas on this i'm lost. Jesse </quote> -- Regards, Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/People/BenRamsey