Posted by Rik on 05/22/06 00:17

Chung Leong wrote:
> Paul Lautman wrote:
>> Here's something that I can't manage to find explicitly documented.
>> In the following snippet:
>>
>> function outer() {
>> global $a;
>> function inner() {
>> global $a;
>> echo $a.'1<br>';
>> }
>> $a = 's';
>> inner();
>> echo $a.'2<br>';
>>
>> }
>> outer();
>>>
>>
>> If either of the globals statements is removed, the variable is not
>> accessable within inner.

Which is abolutely logical.

> What you're trying to do won't work if you call outer() more than
> once.
> PHP has no support for closure or inner functions.


You could circumvent this by:
if(!function_exists('inner'){
//define function
}

I'm very curious though why one would need such an imho messy function
declaration.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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