[Resolved] ***? Global problem...

[The Hobo]

I'm doing this sort of thing in numerous scripts, however, in ONE FILE, it's not working.

Here's a condensed version of the code:

<?php

    $CONFIG['absolute_path'] = '/home/vbshelf/public_html/reality/news/';
    //config.php simply loads some variables from a database
    //into the $CONFIG array:
    include $CONFIG['absolute_path'] . 'config.php';

    echo $CONFIG['numitems'] . '<br>'; //WORKS!

    function _news($cat = '') {
        global $CONFIG;
        
        echo $CONFIG['numitems'] . '<br>'; //DOESN'T WORK?
    }

?>

What gives?!

[The Hobo]

This doesn't make any sense whatsoever...

Anybody...?

[The Hobo]

I fixed it. I don't know how...but it works.

[phpman]

the only thing I can see if it doesn't work is if you didn't run that function. but seeing how it is resolved then cool

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by phpman
the only thing I can see if it doesn't work is if you didn't run that function. but seeing how it is resolved then cool

I was running the function. Matt and I spent like an hour trying to figure it out, and then I changed one small thing (in a file we weren't even looking at) and it worked. Still didn't make sense, but...oh well.

[Chroder]

I had this problem a little while ago. I had a function that included the file which had my variable in it. So at the top of my file with the variable, I added "gloabl $myvar" and when the function went to include the file everything was fine. I had something like this:

function incFunc()
{
    $files = array("file1.php", "file2.php");
    foreach($files as $file)
    {
        include($file);
    }
}

// file1.php, example

global $config;
$config = array("var" => "variable", "welcome" => "bonjour"); 

[The Hobo]

Pretty much sounds like what I had to do to fix it.

Crazy thing was that it worked fine on my PC, but didn't work on my host's server.