Setting it to global

[JakesSA]

is there a way or a function to access a variable that is inside a loop...outside.... like you would do with a function to setting it to global.

eg

while($data = mysql_fetch_array($result))
	{ 
             $data['firstnames'];
	}

 //latter in the script

 echo $data["firstname"];

[devinemke]

you can use $data['firstname'] later in your script but be advised that it will contain the value of whatever the last record of your result set.

[JakesSA]

Thanks