Re: Global Annoyance

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 Bill.Hoffman@walgreens.com wrote: > I would like to have all of my variables available globally unless I > specify otherwise. If I wanted to make a second mail function I would > have to declare all of these variables all over again. I have had to > declare the same variable 5 times in 5 different functions. > Let me know if anyone knows a better way to do this. Well, one option would be to extract($GLOBALS) in your functions, which will define variables for each element of the $GLOBALS array. http://www.php.net/manual/function.extract.php However, if your issue is that you want those five variables in each function, and don't care about the other globals, you could also write a function to grab those five variables, and extract() them. function get_my_vars() { $vars = Array('var1','var2','var3'); foreach ($vars as $var) { global $$var; $retvars[$var] = $$var; } return $retvars; } And in your functions, just run extract(get_my_vars()) in place of your global calls. > Please respond to me via direct E-mail. The list stopped mailing to me months ago. Try unsub/resubbing. Matt