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[Nunez, Eddy]

I believe functions and class definitions are globally scoped.
I think the local scoping only applies to variables.

I exec'd this bit of code and it supports my statement:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
function definer() {
        include_once("./foo.inc");
        function func_foo() { echo 'foo was here'; }
}

echo ( class_exists( 'foo' ) ) 
	?  'foo is out there!' : 'foo not there.'; print "<br>";
echo ( function_exists( 'func_foo' ) )
	?  'func foo is out there!' : 'func foo not there.'; print "<br>";

definer();

echo ( class_exists( 'foo' ) )
	?  'foo is out there!' : 'foo not there.'; print "<br>";
echo ( function_exists( 'func_foo' ) )
	?  'func foo is out there!' : 'func foo not there.';
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Output:
foo not there.
func foo not there.
foo is out there!
func foo is out there!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope this helps.
-Eddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Zaunere [mailto:zaunere at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:18 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: [nycphp-talk] require/include inside a function



I'm using the unserialize_callback_func ini setting, from
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php like so:

ini_set('unserialize_callback_func','handlestdclass');

function handlestdclass( $classname ) {
   require_once("{$classname}/{$classname}.inc");
}

Now I may be overlooking something very obvious, but when code is
require/included in a function, it is locally scoped inside that
function.  If that's the case, and no way around it, what good is this
directive?

Any thoughts would be helpful.  Thanks guys,

Hans Z

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