Posted by MS on 04/12/07 12:57

"Tyno Gendo" <you@localhost> wrote in message
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> Rienk Withaar wrote:
> > Hello, I have the following problem:
> >
> > I want my function to return a value, $l, using the following function:
> >
> > function level($n,$l=0,$d=false) {
> > if ($d) { return $l; }
> > else {
> > $ff=get_folders();
> > for ($i=0;$i<count($ff);$i++) {
> > if ($n==$ff[$i][0]) {
> > if ($ff[$i][4]!=0) {
> > $l++;
> > level($ff[$i][4],$l,$d);
> > }
> > else {
> > $d=true;
> > level($ff[$i][0],$l,$d);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }

Having taken a quick look at this it seems that the variable $d is never set
to true unless it is set at true for the original call of the function.

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