How to access a local variable globally

[basuindranil_84]

function abc(){ $name="indranil"; echo "the name is ".$name;//this gives the value of $name}echo "the name is ".$name;//this does not print the value "indranil"How could I solve this problem.Please Help!!!

[real_illusions]

my guess is, its because its outside the curly brackets where the variable is set??Other than that, i have no idea. Is that all there is to your script or is there something else?

[basuindranil_84]

my guess is, its because its outside the curly brackets where the variable is set??Other than that, i have no idea. Is that all there is to your script or is there something else?

Could this be solved by using global or $GLOBAL[] concepts.

[Synook]

Yes. However, the problem is partly that you never actually call abc(), which means that even with global $name won't be set. Fully fixed the code may read

$name = "";function abc(){global $name;$name="indranil";echo "the name is ".$name;//this gives the value of $name}abc();echo "the name is ".$name;//this will print the value "indranil"

[jhecht]

You should never call echo inside a function unless absolutely necessary. I would instead do this:

<?php  function abc(){  	  return "Name Here";   }   $name = abc();   echo "The name is ".$name;?>

If whatever you are doing must be done inside the function with echoes, then use what Synook posted.