Using variables declared within functions

[Clarkey_Boy]

Hi,

I am currently making my login system a lot better - I have the session_start() line at the beginning of each page in my game. I also have the variables $username and $password declared on the next two lines. In the users table there is a column called usergroup. I want to use a function to find out what that usergroup is for the user that is logged in. I have made it find out what the usergroup is WITHIN the function but I have also tried to use $usergroup outside the function, after the function has been called. This has been unsuccessful. Does anyone know how I could go about doing this?

Clarkey Boy

[thorpe]

use the [man]global[/man] keyword.

[Clarkey_Boy]

ok... I have found another way. I tried using the global method but could not seem to be able to get it to work. I am using session variables instead. That way, I do need to use session_start() before calling the function, nor do I need to declare $username or $password before the function is called.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway, thorpe.