Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/17/23 11:31

On Sat, November 5, 2005 3:44 am, shining wrote:
> I am php beginner, I have a question:
> in my index page, I firstly inlcude_once a A.php file, where i defined
> an
> array, secondly I include another .php file named B.php, where I want
> to use
> the array, I have claimed it as global type, but it seems I can't
> retrieve
> any value from the array.

global only really makes sense in the context of INSIDE a function (or
method of a class)

So *where* did you declare it global?

You probably want to take out the global unless it is inside of a
function() { }


> So I want to ask:
> 1. Is my use way right?
> 2. if I want to track a variable value how it changed between php
> functions,
> besides I print out it's value, Is there any other way to do it?

There are IDEs you can use to watch variables as a script executes.

Zend IDE
Komodo

are the ones I remember as "good" from when I last looked at IDEs

YMMV

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