While with a condition

[petermcphee]

A newbie question here....I have a while loop that I want to restrict based on the looped counter. Here is what I have so far:

function somefuntion()
{
$tmp = 1;
while (somefunction(using $tmp) < target) {
$tmp ++;
}
return $tmp;
}

I understand that I should use while ($tmp < 500), but $tmp is being used in a function and I want the formula to keep looping until it is equal to the target value.

I tried adding while ($tmp < 500) before the while (somefunction()) and also adding an if ($tmp < 500), but it seems that the while loop overrides this.

I'm sure there is a simple solution, I just can't quite get my head around loops.

Thanks,

Peter.

[bogu]

get your $tmp outside of the function:

$tmp = 1; 
function somefuntion() 
{ 
global $tmp;
while (somefunction(using $tmp) < target) { 
$tmp ++; 
} 
return $tmp; 
}