note 7997 modified in Variable scope by ronabop

From: Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:51:50 +0000
Subject: note 7997 modified in Variable scope by ronabop
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What needs documenting is how scoping applies to the HTML-interpolatedness of PHP. <? $a = 'foo'; $b = 'bar'; ?> <p>text text text plain ol' HTML text</p> <? echo $a . $b; ?> So will this echo statement return "foobar" or "" ? It turns out that the former is correct: "global" means the entire file, not just that particular chunk of PHP within the file. Which only makes sense, given the examples of ASP and JavaScript, but it needs saying. http://www.php.net/manual/variable-scope.php

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