Accessing a variable defined in a parent function

Question

Is there a way to access $foo from within inner()?

function outer()
{
    $foo = \"...\";

    function inner()
    {
        // pr         


        

Answer 1

I do not think it is possible.

PHP Manual has some comment around this and none of them seam to find a solution.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php#77693

Another comment suggests that nested functions are not actually "nested" for real

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php#20407