global variables & arrays

[Anon]

I have created a session that registers an array as a session variable(s). I refer to that array in a function. Usually, I will just use...

global $variable;

...but this doesn't work with arrays? Is there something different that I need to do? Here is the layout of my situation...

SESSION VARIABLES
$databse="whatever";
$permission_staff=1;
$permission[1]=1;
$permission[2]=1;
...

FUNCTION
function check($item) {
global $permission[];
if $permission[$item]==1 return "yes";
else return "no";
}

SUMMARY
Basically, should I use something different than "global" for the arrays as global variables??

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

[Anon]

untested but I think you use

global $permission;

not

global $permission[];

Chris Lee

[Anon]

That didn't work either. I thought that I had tried that one.

I know that the variables are set and that the variables have a value assigned to them, because outside of the function, they work.

Any other ideas??

Thanks,
Darren