Question on functions

My question is in regard to passing global variables to a function. Here is my code, any idea why it is not working? I suppose my understanding of a global variable being able to be used within a function is off? global $array = array( "0" => "hostname", "1" => "username", "2" => "password" ); function database() { $dbase = mysql_pconnect( $array[0], $array[1], $array[2] )or die( mysql_error()); if( connection_status() != 1 ) { echo "connection failed"; } } call_user_func( "database" ); -- Jason Gerfen jason.gerfen@scl.utah.edu "And remember... If the ladies don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy..." ~The Red Green show