Undefined Variable Time

[Doom87]

For my site i put it a line in on the page that says how long the page took to load. It's working fine (displaying the time and everything) the problem is though, i get a:

Notice: Undefined variable: time in mainfile.php on line 80

Here's some revalant code from mainfile.php:

function begintime() {
   $time = round(microtime(), 3);
}

/* .... Code in here
*/

function footer() {
$time2 = round(microtime(), 3);
$generation = $time2 - $time;  // <-- THIS IS LINE 80

/* .... More Function code here....
*/

echo "<font face='$face' size='2' color='$shadow'>This Page Took:  " . $generation . " seconds to load</font>\n";
}

Here's some code in index.php:

global $time, $time2, $generation;

begintime();

footer();

and on the page, right where i want it it says: This Page Took: 0.198 seconds to load

I just keep getting that notice that I have an undefined variable time, does anyone see where that could be coming from?

Thanks,

Jim

[dagon]

your declaring it as global in the wrong place see: Variable scope

[Doom87]

I just tried declaring it inside the function, it still gives me undefined variable.

[dagon]

post the code you have now