Re: Program flow?

Hi,

The answer of your question is "Yes". Ordinary variables are reset when the
script starts. However, you could use sessions or cookies, or some memory
share, or even a data base in order to achieve some persistency of the
variables.

Checkout the Sessions chapter in the manual -
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

Kouber

"Rory Walsh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi I have a one simple question that I need to sort out before I
> continue writing any PHP scripts. Every time I call a script are the
> variables reset to the default values? If for example I call action.php
> from a form with a hidden value "test", I set $NUMBER to 5. If I then
> call action.php again from another form with another hidden value which
> means that I do not assign any number to $NUMBER, will $NUMBER now go
> back to being its default value or will it stay at 5? So basically I
> think my question is, each time one runs a script is it the same as
> starting the application all over again? Cheers,
> Rory.