Bug #64186 [Opn->Nab]: Curly brace syntax not accessing superglobals?

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64186&edit=1 ID: 64186 Updated by: johannes@php.net Reported by: michal at durooil dot com Summary: Curly brace syntax not accessing superglobals? -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Windows 7 x64 PHP Version: 5.4.11 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php This is to to just-in-time initialization of super globals. You either neet a direct call to that same super global in the same function or have to disable this optimization by setting auto_globals_jit in php.ini Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-11 00:22:08] michal at durooil dot com 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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64186&edit=1