Including a conf file

[vcherubini]

Hello:

I am pretty new to the world of PHP, so please bear with me.

Say I have a file, .php or .php3, and it has a lot of variables in it that are global and can be used on every page that it is included in.

So say the file is named include.php3 and has information such as this within it:

[tt]
$name = "your name";
$age = "your age";
$height = "your height";

[/tt]

Ok, if I included that file with another PHP file, and use the variable $name, will it have the value "your name" or will it have no value?

I know that if you have a main functions file and include that, you can call functions from that file, so I would assume variables would be the same way.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

-Vic

vic cherubini
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[sophisticate]

Variable $name will indeed be initialized with the value "your name" if you include the php file -- provided that you aren't trying to access the variable from a custom function. In that case you do need to declare $name as global (simply "global $name;&quot within the said function.

Hope this helps.

brendanc@icehouse.net

 

[vcherubini]

Thanks a bunch for that. I had been thinking that the entire time. Man that is much easier than perl.

Thanks for the help again. I will keep posting when I need it. =)

-Vic

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