Do array elements have a default scope? I thought they might be global because in one of my functions I could only access them through $GLOBALS['array']['key']. But if they were global, I would expect to be able to access the array elements within the function by simply using $array['key'] - but this didn't work.

So what's the actual scope of an array element?

An array element has the same scope as the array variable itself.

If you're in function scope, you need to either use the $GLOBALS superglobal array or the 'global' keyword to import global variables into function scope.

  http://www.php.net/variables.scope


Take care,

Nik
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