Global variable available in included file

bergerma

Hey everybody, I'm a newbie. I'm trying to get the value of a global variable to be available inside of an included file and haven't been successful. Perhaps someone would be so kind as to help. I'm trying to accomplish something to the effect of:

<?php
global $myvariable;
$myvariable = "This is some text";

 include ("file.php");

And have $myvariable available for use within file.php. Right now I have only a simple <?php echo "$myvariable"; ?> inside of file.php to test for whether it is available. What am I not doing correctly? I don't completely understand the scope of global variables i guess. Thank you so much.

ScubaKing22

That variable should be available in file.php because writing include is basically the same as copying and pasting the code where you wrote include('file'); Could you post your file.php code if you're still having problems?

bergerma

Playing with it some more I think the problem is that the file I'm including is not in the same directory as the script, and thus I have an absolute reference to the included file. If I place file.php in the same directory as the original script, it works just fine. However, when I use the absolutely reference to include file.php, it does not work correctly. Any more ideas? I have:

script.php

<?php
global $myvariable;
$myvariable = "This is some text";

include ("http://www.mysite.com/includes/file.php");
?>

/includes/file.php

<?php echo "$myvariable"; ?>

Thanks again!

ScubaKing22

Since the use of a domain is probably use of a virtual directory (Isn't actuall location), that might be the problem. Try replacing include ("http://www.mysite.com/includes/file.php"); with something like include("C:\directory\file.php") or if in a *nix type OS use that directory structure and see what happens.