Question

I have this function which declares variables:

function imageSize($name, $nr, $category){
    $path = 'ad_images/'.$category.'/'.$name.'.jpg';
    $path_thumb = 'ad_images/'.$category.'/thumbs/'.$name.'.jpg';
    list($width, $height) = getimagesize($path);
    list($thumb_width, $thumb_height) = getimagesize($path_thumb);
        ${'thumb_image_' . $nr . '_width'} = $thumb_width;
        ${'thumb_image_' . $nr . '_height'} = $thumb_height;
        ${'image_' . $nr . '_width'} = $width;
        ${'image_' . $nr . '_height'} = $height;
}

When I echo this:

   echo $image_1_width

It works fine, but if I do it OUTSIDE the function it wont recognize the variable, how can I make them ‘global’ somehow?

Thanks

Answer 1

I would strongly advise NOT using global.

What will probably be best is for you to return from the function:

function imageSize($name, $nr, $category){
    $path = 'ad_images/'.$category.'/'.$name.'.jpg';
    $path_thumb = 'ad_images/'.$category.'/thumbs/'.$name.'.jpg';
    list($width, $height) = getimagesize($path);
    list($thumb_width, $thumb_height) = getimagesize($path_thumb);
        ${'thumb_image_' . $nr . '_width'} = $thumb_width;
        ${'thumb_image_' . $nr . '_height'} = $thumb_height;
        ${'image_' . $nr . '_width'} = $width;
        ${'image_' . $nr . '_height'} = $height;

    $myarr = array();
    $myarr['thumb_image_' . $nr . '_width'] = $thumb_width;
    $myarr['thumb_image_' . $nr . '_height'] = $thumb_height;
    $myarr['image_image_' . $nr . '_width'] = $width;
    $myarr['image_image_' . $nr . '_height'] = $height;
    return $myarr;

}

$myImage = imageSize($name, $nr, $category);

then you access each var:

echo $myImage['thumb_image_1_width'];
echo $myImage['thumb_image_1_height'];
echo $myImage['image_1_weight'];
echo $myImage['image_1_height'];

etc.