Global Functions

[Shawazi]

I have this function in my code:

function elseif_badform($thekey, $thevalue, $pattern)
{
	if ($thekey == $thevalue)
	{
		if (!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9_ -]+[\.]?[A-Za-z0-9 -]+@.+\\..+$",$HTTP_POST_VARS["$thevalue"]))
		{
			$bad_format["$thevalue"] = "bad";
		}
	}
}

If $thevalue equals 'email', how can I use sizeof($bad_format) or echo $bad_format['email'] outside the function?

[Roger_Ramjet]

Well. When you use a function it returns the result, only yours doesn't.

function elseif_badform($thekey, $thevalue, $pattern) {
    if ($thekey == $thevalue){
        if (!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9_ -]+[.]?[A-Za-z0-9 -]+@.+\..+$",$HTTP_POST_VARS["$thevalue"])) {
            return  "bad";
        }
        else {
        	return "good";
        }
    }
    else {
    	return 'key not equal value';
    }
}