[Resolved] variable problems

pohopo

Anyone know why this variable will not work? (it is the one that says //this fails)

------start of my page------
include_once "variable.inc.php";

$car['make'] = "bmw";

echo $car['color']; //THIS FAILS
echo $car_color //THIS WORKS
echo $car['make']; //THIS WORKS
------end of my page------

-----start of variable.inc.php-----
$car['color'] = "blue";
$car_color = "blue";
------end of variable.inc.php-----

Thanks in advance.

rehfeld

your code should work. i think:
a-you have more code than you posted and something else is interfereing
b-you edited spelling or capitals/lowercase when posting
c-your saving the wrong file and there is another variable.inc.php in another folder or something

whenever your debugging a script, put this at the top of your script. it will often show your problems to you.

error_reporting(E_ALL);

also,

instead of doing this stuff

----start of my page------

and use

 bbcode tags around your code. then it will look like the snip in this post

bpat1434

Last time I checked (and I may be wrong) but all if you have something in this form:

$var['something']

then I believe that it accesses an array of "var". I know this because if you use:

$display = mysql_fetch_array($thequery);

then you can access each item of the array using:

$display['ITEM'];

I think your variable is trying to access an array.

~Brett

Installer

I think your variable is trying to access an array.

I think he knows that.

pohopo

yes, i know it is an array and want an array and i looked over my spelling and everything and still does not work. let me try error_reporting(E_ALL) as I have not used that before (still new to PHP)

thanks for the tip

edit

Okay, I am a loser. I was using my variable somewhere else so it kept changing it to nothing. This is the reason why you gotta have a debug tool!

bpat1434

You should mark this as resolved....