I try to work on an global array from a function. Here is my code:
$myArray = array();
myfunc($myArray);
var_dump($myArray);
function myfunc($myArray){
//perform some other tasks
$myArray['name']='John';
}
But didn't work. The var_dump return empty array. How can I get the array being pass up to the global?
Thank you.
You need to pass is as a reference &
Try doing this:
function myFunc(&$myArray){
//perform some other tasks
$myArray['name']='John';
}
You could also return it as such:
$myArray = array();
$myArray = myfunc($myArray);
var_dump($myArray);
function myfunc($myArray){
//perform some other tasks
$myArray['name']='John';
return $myArray;
}
return instead?
brenjt answer is probably the best, however the OP asked how to access the global variable. You could access the $myArray globally using the global keyword, but you wouldn't pass that array into the function.
$myArray = array();
myfunc($myArray);
var_dump($myArray);
function myfunc(){
global $myArray;
//perform some other tasks
$myArray['name']='John';
}
This would NOT be the best method for accessing the array. You should use the example by brenjt, but I wanted to show that this is also possible.
