define a NEW include() function

[Anon]

hello coders!

i want to definde a new include function. or easier a function that calls the include function. i need it for a small template system, where i desine some plazeholder variables and then include the template...

now i want to make the site skinable. so when i include the template i must add the $skin Variable to the path of the template-file and check for its existens... if it not exist i would include a normal template that exist.

my problem is when i define a function like this,

function gen_tpl($path){
include($path);
}

i could not find my plazeholders, because they are not global. but how can i make all Variables global?! (the include function can do this...)

can anybody help me?!

thx mischerman

[daarius]

use constants in your include() file. they are by default global. thats how i do my stuff.

i am not sure about vars, i would thought so that it should work. but it doesnt as you said.

[Anon]

mmh... but i also use Array Plazeholders for FOR-Loops and i think this is a problem when i use constants..

is there no was to define a function i which are all Variables Global?!

[simon_belak]

you can define all the vars you want to be global as $GLOBALS['name_of_the_var'].
This way the vars will stay global eaven if they have been included from a function