Posted by Marcus Bointon on 10/21/24 11:28

I have a simple situation:

in a.inc.php:

$a = 1;

in b.class.php

require 'a.inc.php';
class b {
function test() {
global $a;
echo $a;
}
}

With this pattern, $a is NOT visible within class b, even though it
is declared in the global scope and I'm using the global keyword! I
can work around it two ways; by changing the original declaration
(which just seems wrong - it's already in the global scope at this
point):

global $a;
$a = 1;

or by requiring the inc file inside each function of b (much less
efficient):

class b {
function test() {
require 'a.inc.php';
global $a;
echo $a;
}
}

Is this just how it is, or am I doing something wrong?

Marcus
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