RE: [PHP] Speaking of Global Annoyance

first thing that comes to mind is returning the value (didn't check much else since you said the code was functional outside of the function) excuse my reformatting, I find it easier to assess this way function getimages(){ chdir("images"); $dir = dir("."); $dir->rewind(); while ($file=$dir->read()){ if(!is_dir("$file")){ $imagename[$file] = $file; } } return $imagename; #actually spits something back out } #call the function to get the imagename array #assign it to variable (now array) $imagename=getimages(); -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Leavell [mailto:k@bigsky.net] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:39 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Speaking of Global Annoyance I want to return the array of image names ($imagename) from a directory so the script doesn't have to read the directory constantly. I have tried global and return and $GLOBAL but $imagename comes back empty. It works just fine until I try to implement the function. function getimages() { chdir("images"); //read image names from directory /images $dir = dir("."); $dir->rewind(); while ($file=$dir->read()) { if(!is_dir("$file")) //if the variable isn't a directory then put it in the array imagename { $imagename[$file] = $file; //adds the filename to the array imagename } } } Image viewing code here Thanks Kevin Leavell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net