Rather than continuing to shroud this in mystery, could you at least give us a taste of what is in $footertext?
miguel On Mon, 20 May 2002, Leif K-Brooks wrote: > I won't send the whole value of $footertext, it's too long. Yes, it > contains the contents of the footer file. I have tried displaying it > before the function and it works fine. > > Martin Towell wrote: > > >what's that value of $footertext? > > is it the actual contents of the footer file? > >have you tried displaying the contents of $footertext just before you call > >checkmember()? > > does it contain what you're expecting? > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Leif K-Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:23 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [PHP] Variable won't work in function, even when I global it? > > > > > > On my website, I open my header (and footer) file with fileopen and > >then eval() it. I know I should include them, but I knew nothing about > >php when I did this. Anyway, I'm working on "groups" for my website. > > They will be a kind of club. At the top of every group page, I include > >a group function file. Among those functions is one that checks if the > >user trying to go to the group is a member of it. If not, it gives them > >an error message and exits. It is also supposed to eval() the footer > >before exiting. My code is as follows: > > > > function checkmember(){ > > global $groupid; > > global $userinfo; > > global $footertext; > > if($groupid != $userinfo['groupid']){ > > print "<b>Error:</b> you're not a member of this group."; > > eval($footertext); > > exit; > > } > > return; > > } > > > > > >The thing is, it doesn't seem to eval() the footer. I've even tried > >getting $footertext out of the $GLOBALS array. I have also tried > >printing $footertext to make sure it wasn't a problem with evel(). > > Nothing has worked. When I did isset() on $GLOBALS['footertext'], it > >worked however. Thanks to anybody who can help. > > > > > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
