Hello,

This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Tue, 15 Jul 2003 at 15:19,
lines prefixed by '>' were originally written by you.
> Can i ask another question? What if i want to increment a global
> counter from within a function. at the moment i am trying to declare
> the variable normally:
> $counter=0;
> then within the function:
> function (){
> global $counter;
> $counter++;
> but then when i go to echo $counter outside of the function its value
> hasnt changed?

For me, the following code:

===
$counter=0;

function IncCounter(){
    global $counter;
    $counter++;
}

IncCounter();
echo $counter; // 1 is displayed
===

works fine, maybe it is a problem with your particular code?

David.

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