On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Aric Caley wrote:
> Is there anyway to include a file inside of a function and have the included
> stuff be global? For instance if I defined a class or a function in that
> include file, I want to be able to use that class outside of the function.
>
> On the documentation for include() a poster commented that it did indeed
> work like this, but my testing indicates it does not. Everything stays
> local to the function and goes away when the function ends.
>
> Is there a way?
Functions defined in included files are always global. So I guess it is
just the variable you want to put out into the global symbol table. It's
a little bit tricky, but you can do it like this:
function foo($filename) {
extract($GLOBALS, EXTR_REFS);
include $filename;
$arr = array_diff(get_defined_vars(),$GLOBALS);
foreach($arr as $var=>$val) $GLOBALS[$var] = $val;
}
-Rasmus
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