ID: 16687
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.1
PHP Version: 4.2.0
New Comment:
I have already reported this problem, but nothing happened.
Superglobals seemed to be accessible with variable variables in the
global scope, but not in any local scope (inside a function). Derick
told me, that it is by design, but IMHO this is incosistent, and quite
ugly :((
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Goba
Previous Comments:
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[2002-04-19 14:53:51] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reclassified.
It should be documented that due the special way super globals are
treated the cannot be used with variable variables.
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[2002-04-19 12:40:50] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
True true. Derick (or someone else) mind briefly explaining why this
is/has to be different?
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[2002-04-19 11:11:00] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But then why does it work under certain circumstances and not others?
Regardless whether intended or not, this is inconsistent behaviour.
I also think that having these differences between regular variables
and the "superglobals" shouldn't be necessary. If I can't use them in
the same contexts as regular variables, then I would personally prefer
the $HTTP_*_VARS instead, because you can.
I have found my approach to abstracting this difference ($HTTP_*_VARS
vs. $_*) between PHP versions to be really beneficial to my scripts. I
can abstract them both down to one name, and use a single reference to
the appropriate one instead of sticking if statements every time I need
to know which one to use.
Sorry to keep buggin' ya, but I think this may be a fair enough
argument for change.
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[2002-04-19 10:33:59] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can't use superglobals indirectly, check this:
$t = "_GET";
var_dump ($$t);
doesn't work neither, and it wasn't supposed to work.
However, this does work (because $HTTP_GET_VARS is not a superglobal):
$t = "HTTP_GET_VARS";
var_dump ($$t);
Derick
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[2002-04-18 19:09:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reclassified
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