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peschehimself

Posted: 14 June 2008 05:10 PM

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Hi There

I’m currently coding a multi-step form for a customer, using a combination of custom PHP functions and FreeForm and just ran into a strange problem.

Let’s take this situation:

<?php
$var = "I'am just a test variable.";

function print_me() {
    global $var;

    echo($var);
}
?> 

This should print out the contents of $var but strangely it does not, PHP set either input or output.

Any ideas? Is this a bug?

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Derek Jones

Posted: 14 June 2008 07:19 PM

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No, it’s not a bug, but unique behavior to PHP executed with eval(). See the Knowledge Base article My PHP functions cannot reference global PHP variables for details.

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peschehimself

Posted: 15 June 2008 04:05 AM

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Thanks for pointing out, you can mark this as resolved.

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Sue Crocker

Posted: 17 June 2008 03:28 PM

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Closing thread..

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