How to declare global array?

Lauj

How do I declare a global array in my page so that I can use this array anywhere on my page?

ljCharlie

chads2k2

Well one thing you can use is $_SESSION variables. They are automatically global variables that are set in array format. I don't know guys can you set an array to be global? I don't think you can but hey I never have had a case in my 8 years of coding that I needed to do this.

Chad

Lauj

Thank you for your response. Here's the case. I declared inside a function and once this function is done excuting, I need to display the result of this array in another place on the page that is outside of this function.

ljCharlie

Installer

One way would be to serialize the array, define the serialized variable as a constant, then unserialize it when needed. (A defined constant is global.)

Another, probably better, way to do it would be to pass the array by reference to the function.

Edit: reference example:

function test(&$arr)
{
    $arr = array('abc', 'def', 'ghi');
    return true;
}

test($my_array);
print_r($my_array);