Function not seeing my global variables

[Anon]

I have multiple global variables declared in an include, and i want to reference and use these variables in a function, but the function will not allow me to use these variables unless i (a)send all of the variables to the function, or (b)include the file in the function itself. Is there any way to make these variables truly global? My code looks like this:

//In the include.inc file:
global $var = "My value";

//In the code:

function my_function($thevar){

echo $var . $thevar;

}

my_function("test");

////////////////////////////

this leaves me with the output of:

test

any help would be greatly appreciated.

--GCON

[Anon]

The global operator is used to allow a function to access a variable that is declared in the global scope.

So you need to add the line:
global $var;
into your function then you will have access to the variable named $var that exists in the global scope.

In the include file if you just had the line:
$var = "My Value";
and this line didn't appear inside of a function statement then the variable $var will be declared in the global scope.