Posted by blessblessbless on 05/04/07 00:52

Hey all,
I am self taught in PHP and my method is just trial and error most of
the time, but when trying doe not help anymore I get frustrated... I'm
sure some of you know what I mean.

My problem is with a recursive(referring back to itself) function I am
trying to write.
The function works well on its own, and it also works recursively as
many times as I want it to.
I am going to give you a lite version of the function because it
doesn't really matter what it does.

global $counter;
$counter=0;
function recursion($value){
$counter++;
if ($counter > 10){exit("Recursion exceeded limit!");}

$newvalue= blabla something with $value

if (condition applies){recursion($newvalue);}
return $newvalue;
$counter=0;
}

SO my problem is, the counter is not working. I know it has something
to do with the fact that functions use their own variables, buts that
is why I thought to set the counter as global :/
Anybody have an idea why it wont stop and my apache crashes when I try
to repeat the function limitless? (ok i know why it crashes, just not
why the function does not stop;

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