PHP works outside function but wont work inside function

Question

I\'m trying to put the following code into a function as I need to use it quite a few times but with one variable changed ($subject) but it doesn\'t seem to be working. If I rem

Answer 1

$connect is no longer accessible inside the function. A simple, but bad fix would be this:

function count($subject){
    global $connect

A better fix would be for you to send in the $connect variable to the function:

function count($subject, $connect){

And change your function calls to

count("The subject", $connect)