Question

It’s a visibility scope issue. Can I make the variables global?

For some reason within main.php,

echo '<div class="header"><div class="counts">'.$displaycount.' </div><h5>.$LANG_MEMBERS_ONLINE_NOW.' ?></h5></div>'; 

isn’t displaying. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

PHP functions will only use local copies of variables unless you explicitly tell it to use the global versions.

There are two ways of doing this:

Access it as $GLOBALS['LANG_MEMBERS_ONLINE_NOW'] everywhere you use it or put global $LANG_MEMBERS_ONLINE_NOW; at the top of the function.

Edit: It would also work with $displaycount (as $GLOBALS['displaycount']), but for whatever reason, I assumed $LANG_MEMBERS_ONLINE_NOW was the only global when I posted this. Whoops.