[PHP] Creating custom superglobals
Hello, Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. Thanks, Ville -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
[snip] Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. [/snip] An include file? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
Ville Mattila wrote: Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. No, PHP does not allow userland to create superglobals. However, all global variables can be accessed through the $GLOBALS superglobal. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
Hello, You CAN create custom superglobals, but it requires that you have RunKit enabled: http://us3.php.net/runkit HTH, K. Bear -Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:04 AM To: Ville Mattila Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals Ville Mattila wrote: Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. No, PHP does not allow userland to create superglobals. However, all global variables can be accessed through the $GLOBALS superglobal. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:45 -0400, KermodeBear wrote: Hello, You CAN create custom superglobals, but it requires that you have RunKit enabled: http://us3.php.net/runkit Which will make your application incompatible with any distribution where runkit is not enabled :/ Which kinda sucks, I wish more stuff was part of the core. Cheers, Rob. HTH, K. Bear -Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:04 AM To: Ville Mattila Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals Ville Mattila wrote: Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. No, PHP does not allow userland to create superglobals. However, all global variables can be accessed through the $GLOBALS superglobal. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- .. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
Robert Cummings wrote: Which will make your application incompatible with any distribution where runkit is not enabled :/ Which kinda sucks, I wish more stuff was part of the core. Cheers, Rob. I agree, this module looks very powerful. The ability to write wrappers around internal functions by renaming the existing functions could come in very handy, and defining new superglobals would help make code more readable (IE, $settings['foo'] rather than $GLOBALS['settings']['foo']). Heck, even runkit_lint_file would be somewhat helpful, since it's save us from having to make a shell call for syntax checking. Regards, Adam. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
On Mon, August 14, 2006 8:40 am, Ville Mattila wrote: Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. Not unless you want to install the RunKit extension, which pretty much lets you re-define ANYTHING in PHP... Probably a Bad Idea... $_SESSION might be a reasonable place to store your data, however, depending on what it is... Maybe I'm mis-understanding what you are storing, but it seems like the kind of stuff that belongs in $_SESSION... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating custom superglobals
On 15/08/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, August 14, 2006 8:40 am, Ville Mattila wrote: Does the PHP environment (5.1.4) provide a way to define some custom variables as a superglobal? It would be useful for saving certain site preferences and settings that must be referred in many variables and classes, without every time writing global keyword at the beginning of a function definition. ...or why not keep it simple and use include_once/require_once? I generally have a config file for every app that contains constants, variables and so on that are used across the application.
