include() Error

Good morning all:

I have recently purchased a computer and am using it as a dedicated server.  A friend helped me install PHP and configure.  I am saying this because I wonder if using a newer version of PHP (compared to my commercial web host) may be the reasoning behind the error I am receiving.  

I created a function to generate a form submission key.  
- This created hidden variable for forms
- This is also session variable 

With this function I have an ‘ include ‘ for the file containing the mySQL database, username and password.  I know this file is being accessed because I added:

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echo $mySQL_user;
===

following the login credentials.  

But when I remove this line from mySQL_user_login.inc.php and place within the function on the line following the include the "echo” returns nothing.  

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include("mySQL_user_login.inc.php");

echo $mySQL_user;
===

Can any of you tell me why this is happening?

Ron Piggott



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