note 16966 added to functions

For some reason, functions have a serious problem obtaining global accesses to resources, such as databases. $conn = anyPHPdatabaseOpen(...); function useDb() { global $conn; statement_using_connection( $conn ); // The doesn't work, but should. } Because of this, you need to pass the resource (in this case $conn) as a parameter. function useDb( $conn ) { ... } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+16966 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+16966 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+16966