Re: Re: How Do I make Global Scope Variables Available toFunctions

On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 13:02 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 29.05.2018 at 02:51, John wrote: > > > 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' > > This is expected, since the global statement does not support initializers. > > > 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. > > The global statement is supposed to be used inside a function body, and > it creates a local variable which is actually a reference to the global > variable with the same name. It does not matter if the global variable > is already set or not. > Thanks for your reply Christoph. From your and other comments it appears that I can't do what I was trying to do. On the one hand, it is satisfying that I wasn't making a mistake; on the other, I sure wish there was a way to avoid passing all these variables in PHP! In a way it makes the "function" command far less valuable than it should be! Regards, John