Question

SOLVED: The error had nothing to do with require or include. It was completely unrelated to the question. Sorry about that. 🙁

I thought I had an understanding of require/include until now. I have a file named file_one that has something like this, $user_data = return_user_data_as_array(). My second file file_two, calls $user_data. Now, when I do a include 'file_two.php' into the file_one page after the functions and variables have been called, the page returns with undefined variable user_data. I thought that if you include/require a file into your php code it would pick up any variables written in the original file? How would I fix this?

Edit: I also want to mention that although the undefined variable error is popping up on my screen, the “undefined” variables are correctly echoed out.

File One

//this require_once holds the function user_data()

require_once 'core/init.php';

$user_id = 1;

$profile_data = user_data($mysqli, $user_id); 

//this calls file two
require_once 'file_two.php';

File Two or file_two.php

echo $profile_data['full_name'];

Answer 1

The answer had nothing to do with the problem in the question. The code in the question is correct.