Bug #64186 [NEW]: Curly brace syntax not accessing superglobals?

From: michal at durooil dot com Operating system: Windows 7 x64 PHP version: 5.4.11 Package: Scripting Engine problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Curly brace syntax not accessing superglobals? Description: ------------ This looks really weird to me. Test script: --------------- // works well print_r(${'_GET'}); // this not however // returns notice: "Undefined variable: _GET" $name = '_GET'; print_r(${$name}); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64186&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64186&r=mysqlcfg