Posted by Stephen Kay on 03/23/06 08:16

Sorry fi this is a stupid question - I come from a c/c++ background, and the
global variables in php aren't making sense to me.

If I want to declare a global variable, say in a global.php file, and have
it initialized to a certian value once, can that be done? Example:

// in global.php

$myvar = 25;

// in some other file

require ("global.php");

function somefunction()
{
global $myvar;

if ($myvar == 25){
$myvar = 30;
echo "setting myvar to 30.";
}
}


So far, so good. I can access this variable in this other functions.

But it doesn't seem to *stay* 30. It goes back to 25. Must be some other way
to do this in php, but I haven't come across the documentation yet. Thanks
for any info.



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Stephen Kay
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