# Undefined variable in snippet

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v2\
**Created:** [March 6, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/undefined-variable-in-snippet/321 "2015-03-06T13:31:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/undefined-variable-in-snippet/321/5 "2015-03-23T20:02:40Z")

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So, what happens if I want to call this variable in the template after modifying it in the snippet. Let’s say I want to do something like this:

```
<?php $color = "used to be black"; ?>
<?php snippet('palette', array('color' => $color)); ?>
<?php echo $color; ?>

```

Where my ‘palette’ snippet contains this:

```
<?php $color = "now is red"; ?>

```

I want the echo in the template to return “now is red”, but it keeps on giving me “used to be black”. I tried using `global` before variables in many different ways, but I couldn’t succeed.

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