Re: tutorial on global variables
| From: | Henrik Hansen | Date: | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:39:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: tutorial on global variables | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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jlhughes@yahoo.com (John Hughes) wrote:
> Can someone point me toward a tutorial on the proper use of global
> references under PHP4.
>
> I have been declaring
>
> function something()
> {
> global $foo, $bar;
>
> /* some actions */
>
> }
>
> in functions and I understand that this is not the way I'm supposed
> to be doing this. Or there is a new way that is preferred.
you can do it that way, but if you want to avoid calling global all
the time you might consider this approach:
$GLOBALS["foo"] = 123;
function something()
{
echo $GLOBALS["foo"];
}
--
Henrik Hansen