global variables not working

[AdRock]

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I have downloaded the new version of guestbook becuase i am using XHTML strict in my website and the <img> and <br> didn't have the trailing backslash / in the 1.5 version

Since upgrading to the new version, i can't echo out any global variables. In the footer i want to use some php like connecting to the database and this worked fine in the 1.5 version but not this version

In the gbook.php i created a global variable called $test and i gave it a value. In the function that prints out the start of the html, i made the same variable global in there too (that's what i did when it worked with the old version) but when i echo out the variable in the footer.txt, i get nothing being echoed.

Is there a way to change the footer.txt to footer.php or is that not needed? or why isn't my test variable being echoed?

Without it being able to use global variables, i can't do database connections in my footer

[Klemen]

If it worked in 1.4x I don't see a reason for it not to work in 1.5. You can try deleting

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ini_set('display_errors', 0);
ini_set('log_errors', 1);

in settings file to see if your footer gives any errors.

[AdRock]

I have now got it working. I was putting the global variables in the wrong function but it works now anyway.

Another minor issue is when i validate my code, i get a warning about an empty <p> tag on this bit (outputed code)

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How can i get rid of this empty paragraph?