I am developing a website using Drupal 6.16.

I want to define a variable in settings.php like

$ge_path = 'some/path/here';

And I want to use it inside my modules.

function mymodule_block(....) {
  global $ge_path;
  $fullPath = $ge_path . '/another/path';
  doSomething($fullPath);
}

But I am getting NULL as the value of $ge_path.

Why am I not able to access the global variable defines in settings.php? How can I get the proper value inside my module functions?

The funny thing is, I am able to access $db_url['default'] and $db_url['mydatabase'] etc.. which are defined just two lines above $ge_path in settings.php!