Re: Include and require

On Mon, August 14, 2006 4:20 pm, Dave Goodchild wrote: > Hi all - I have several require_once statements in my web app to load > in > small function libraries. A common one bundles a variety of functions > to > handle date math and map month numbers to month names. I originally > defined > an array in that file plus a bunch of functions but when I loaded the > page, > the array variable, referenced further down the page, was NULL. I > wrapped a > function def around the array and returned it and all was fine. > > I may be suffering from mild hallucinations, but can you not define > variables in a required file? It is not a scope issue as the array > variable > is referenced in the web page, not in any function. Be 100% sure that the include_once is not being done inside of another function... If you can't figure it out, one quick test is to put 'global ' in front of the variable. If that fixes the problem, then you know that you DO in fact have a scope issue, whether you know why you have it or not. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm