enviroment variables

[Anon]

<---test.php----------
<?

require ('functions.php');
$content ="testing";
test()

?>

=====================
<----functions.php----

function test () {
echo "<table width=98% border=0 align=center cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td colspan=3 bgcolor=#999999> <h1 align=center><font face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif>A Test</font></h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=16% bgcolor=#999999>&nbsp;</td>
<td width=66%> $content </td>
<td width=18% bgcolor=#999999>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=3 bgcolor=#999999>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>" ;

}
---test.php---------->

----functions.php---->

My problem is that the $content variable doesn work right, someone told me it has something to do with enviroment variables... but after searching for houres i didn't find any good way how to do this.

So can anyone help me

// a PHP newbie

[bastien]

need to add this

GLOBAL $content;

to the page with the functions.php

hth

bastien

[Anon]

You should probably pass $content in as a parameter instead of making it global in funtions.php. Either way will work, but you should think about whether the $content variable will be used in more than just that function. If that is the case, then making $content global will be fine.

Example:
function myfunc($content)
{
}

That is what your protocol should look like.