Set $vars in main script that are used in include UDF?

[GoogleDude]

So I have created a so-called 'master/main' include that basically has a ton of udfs that I have collected over time that I commonly use in my many projects.

An issue I have running into is I am looking to set some global $vars in my main script that are used in my master include. I tried setting them as globals in my main script but they dont seem to carry over to my include. Its as though the include is read and $vars are processed before my main script is read at compile time. When I try to compile my main script it complains that $vars in my master/include have not been defined yet when they have been in my main project script. If that makes sense. 

Hope that makes sense and thanks for any feedback.

~GD

[Melba23]

GoogleDude,

It sounds to me as if you need to recast your entire "main/include" philosophy!

But to deal with the immediate problem: the code of any include file is inserted into the main script at the point of the #include directive, so if you declare the Global variables before that point they should be visible within your includes.

M23

[GoogleDude]

Yes I agree with your 'you need to recast your entire "main/include" philosophy!' part. I have become accustomed to what I think are some bad scripting habits and introduce some if not a lot of the misc issue I end up having. Thanks for the immediate problem part. I always thought that includes needed to be at the top of my script before the global $vars.

~GD

[Nine]

Good programming practices require that #include should be self-sufficient.  If you need to have some global vars declared for your include to work properly (and they should be at the very minimum), you should declare them directly in the include, not in the calling script.  Information between the main script and the include script should always be passed thru function parameters.

Edited December 16, 2018 by Nine