Re: using require or include?

Reinhart Viane wrote:

i have made a page (overall.php) in which several elements are defined: the connection with the database a function called session_checker to check if users are logged in and a last function(function getuserinfo()) that substracts values from the database based on the session variables of the logged in user Now this last function sets 2 variables eg. $username=$row['user_name']; $userstatus=$row['user_status']; like this i do not have to recall this script on every page but i just can do the function at the top of every page Now on every page of my site I require this file require(overall.php); But it seems that i cannot get the variables outta this file. So i can not use $username or $userstatus on the pages. I think it has something to do with require not passing the variables? Off course i can repeat the function script on the top of every page, but that's stupid i think. Can i use a include without any problems? Or is there a significant difference in use and security? <snip>

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