quick question -declaring global OUTSIDE a function

[sfullman]

I have a very few vars which I wouldn't care if someone DID hack on them, but I find I have to declare this a lot:

$fl=FILE;
$line=LINE+1;
use_my_function( ....... )
the receiving function globalizes these two vars and if there is a problem it will say "problem with query in file ______ on line _"

However, I find I'm using this debugging more and more and wonder - can you just declare:
global $fl;
global $ln;

OUTSIDE a function?

Thanks,
Sam

[thorpe]

why not try it and see?

[Roger_Ramjet]

No you can't, not if you want to use them inside a function, variable scope . But the answer is to use $GLOBALS superglobal array instead.