08-07-2005, 05:24 PM

i have gotten some books on PHP and i am in the process of going through the activities. i ran in to this problem. while trying to access a variable outside of a function, the screen doesn't print what is supposed to. here is the script

<?php
$life = 42
function meaningoflife () {
global $life;
echo "the meaning of life is $life";
}
meaningoflife();
?>

is there any reason why this should not print "the meaning of life is 42"???

thanks in advance

08-07-2005, 08:34 PM

i found the problem. i was doing all of the task on one page. the task before it was almost the exact same thing:
<?php
$life = 42;
function meaningoflife () {
echo "the meanin of life is $life";
}
meaningoflife ();
?>

08-08-2005, 02:54 AM

Good to hear that you figured it out If you have any other questions, feel free to post them