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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:09:30 +0100
To: PHP Internals Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Globals unavailable, require oddity
From: marcus@synchromedia.co.uk (Marcus Bointon)

On 14 Oct 2005, at 07:07, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:

> If you include a file within a function, that file will be loaded  
> in that function's scope.  Example:

> The same happens if b.class.php is included within a function (or  
> class member, etc.) and includes a.inc.php, as in your example (I  
> am presuming.)
>
> If this is the problem, I suggest simply adding:
>
> global $a;
>
> At the top of a.inc.php, which will solve the problem for you.

I'm aware of how it's supposed to work, but the problem is that it's  
doing something very screwy for me and not working like it should.  
Because it's so different to how it normally works, I can only  
conclude that it's a php.ini problem (though I can't think what  
setting would cause this) or a bug. I can work around it by declaring  
it as a global in the inc file, but my point is that it should not be  
necessary - something odd is going on that's peculiar to my setup.  
Given that no-one else can reproduce it, I'll just have to persevere.

Thanks for looking anyway,

Marcus
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