Re: Re: How Do I make Global Scope Variables Available to Functions

On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 09:37 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 28.05.2018 at 02:46, John wrote: > > > I am writing a PHP script that has a number of variables that (I think) are > > in > > Global scope; that is, they are defined inline before the first command of > > the > > script. Note that these are not necessarily constants as shown in the > > example I > > included; most of them can be changed by the script. > > > > I have functions defined following these variables and before the commands > > in > > the script appear, but when they are called, the functions report the > > variables > > as undefined. This means I have to pass all the Globals to each function as > > a > > call argument. > > > > This seems odd but I don't see what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions? > > See > > <http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php#language.variables.scop > e.global>. > > -- > Christoph M. Becker > Thanks to all of you who suggested this link. Unfortunately it doesn't actually work. If I set the variable as: global $bad_line = "This line ......"; I get error: [Mon May 28 20:28:48.491851 2018] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 7502:tid 139838662719232] [client 192.168.1.118:53916] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ',' or ';' in /httpd/iliffe/yrarc/test.php on line 3\n' If I code it this way: global $bad_line; $bad_line = "This line ......"; then I get: [Mon May 28 20:31:25.553000 2018] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 7502:tid 139838662719232] [client 192.168.1.118:53916] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Notice: Undefined variable bad_line in /httpd/iliffe/yrarc/test.php on line 9\n' Looking at the reference, this is "inside out"; that is, the variable is already defined in the global scope, that is it is in the scope of <?php ....?> and I want it to be available inside the function. The reference is for variables defined within a function to make them available outside the function scope. I ***could*** pass these variables as arguments as shown in the original example, but in the case at hand there are dozens of them and I have been passing them all in an array. This leads to several problems: 1. I have to set up an array every place I call a function 2. I have to keep track of the array indexes for each variable 3. I'm sure that the server will eventually choke on the increased work of handling dozens of arrays; I haven't checked this as I'm still writing the scripts 4. I'm sure there is excessive memory usage passing everything by reference. So, any ideas? And,again, thanks for this suggestion. John