Re: function not returning value

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php On Tuesday 30 April 2002 19:09 pm, you wrote: > Why would the following function not return a value: (both $lastname and > $firstname are defined) > > function get_handle($lastname, $firstname) > { > $handle_guess=$lastname; > $handle=array(); > $fp=fopen('../truelies/userdb', "r"); > while ($d=fgetcsv($fp, 250, ";")) { > $handle[] = $d[0]; > } > fclose ($fp); > for ($i=0; $i<count($handle); $i++) { > if (strcmp($handle_guess, $handle[$i]) ==0) { > $j=1; > $handle_guess = $handle_guess . substr ($firstname,0,$j); > $j++; > } > } > return $handle_guess; > } > > if I put an echo $handle_guess before or after the function then > nothing. So far the only way to make it work is > echo get_handle($lastname, $firstname); > > which is not beautiful. > > BTW is there a limit to the length of a command. If I can't figure this > out then I will have five or six of this "echo" statement concatanated > together. > > Mar -- He who learns must suffer. Aeschylus