Scope Woes - IF statement nested in WHILE statement -PHP

[hdogg]

I have an array $actuals_sum.
<?php
while(conditions)
{


if($i == '24)
{

$actuals_sum[$j] = 'bar';

$j = $j + 1;
}

}


echo $actuals_sum[1];

?>
---------


but.... it throws an ERROR and says $actuals _sum is undefined....

So the scope is LOCAL, i need to make it return GLOBAL.

-Hyrum

[NogDog]

There is no scope difference in PHP inside or outside of loops (just within functions). My guess is that either (a) there is a flaw in your logic, or (b) you haven't shown us all you code and that, in fact, some of your code is within a function.

Perhaps for a quick sanity check you could print out the entire $actuals_sum array at different places where things should have happened to it, to see if they really did:

printf("<pre>%s</pre>\n", print_r($actuals_sum, 1));

[hdogg]

Before I do the sanity check...

The array population takes place within an IF statement, not a function. I found that when i set variables in the IF statement that they stay local. Is that correct?

[NogDog]

No, they are not local to the IF statement, if that's what you mean. They are within the same scope as the IF statement itself is.

$test = 'foo';
echo $test; // foo
if(true)
{
$test = 'bar';
}
echo $test; // bar

Scoping differences only occur inside/outside of function definitions (unless the variable is defined as "global" within the function definition).

Are you positive that your IF condition is actually ever evaluating as true?

[hdogg]

Nogdog-

Thanks for the sanity check---

It helped me realize that the way I was writing my code my IF statement wasn't getting hit...

Thanks a bunch Nogdog -

Hdogg