php functions and variables

[mferrell]

Thanks ... I got everything working just right now.

[Aaron]

global $variable;

[mferrell]

I'm fairly new to php, so I'm not to sure of what I'm doing. Any help would be great.

I have two functions called my_siteTop and my_siteBottom, which draw the header and footer for every one of my pages on my site. How do I create a global variable that will carry between the two functions. All of my variables I have now are only good within the specific function.

Here's what it looks like now:

<?
function my_siteTop (
$page= "",
$title= "",
$description= "",
$keywords= "",
$author= "",
$baseref= "http://localhost/",
$path= "/www/webdirectorylocation"
)
{
include("$path/include/site_top.php3");
}

function my_siteBottom (
$path= "/www/webdirectorylocation"
)
{
include("$path/include/site_bottom.php3");
}
?>