PHP file includes inside function, need to retain global variables. (Trying to wrap HTML comments)

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Solution

Try this:

function include_module($path) {
    foreach($GLOBALS as $name => $value) global $$name;
    echo "\n\n<!-- MODULE: ".basename($path, '.php')." -->\n";
    include($path);
    echo "\n<!-- /MODULE: ".basename($path, '.php')." -->\n\n";
}   
include_module('form-controls.php');

Problem

In an attempt to speed up my workflow and help the back end guys with integration (I'm a front end dev) I'm attempting to extend the file includes function by wrapping comments around each file include to output it's filename: ``` function include_module($path) { echo "\n\n<!-- MODULE: ".basename($path, '.php')." -->\n"; include($path); echo "\n<!-- /MODULE: ".basename($path, '.php')." -->\n\n"; } include_module('form-controls.php'); ``` However this results in the loss of access to any variables set outside the function. I know I can do: ``` global $var ``` But that will only give me access to $var (I'm aware I could do $var['var1'], etc), is there any way to do 'global all' or can anyone think of a different approach to wrap the comments? Cheers :)

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