I'm trying to make a function that returns the id number of a certain user, but I can't access a variable that I declared in the function when I'm calling the function.
function loadlink($users){
global $database, $rowz, $results;
$results = $database->query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '{$users}'");
$rowz = $results->fetch_all(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
var_dump( $rowz); //returns basic array info
}
var_dump( $rowz); //returns "NULL"
loadlink('RandomUser');
var_dump( $rowz); returns the array info if I call loadlink() first, but the thing is that I want to use the $rowz variable when calling loadlink() to access a property of the returned associative array, but it doesn't return anything.