Req #67029 [Opn->Wfx]: feature-request: user defined superglobals

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67029&edit=1 ID: 67029 Updated by: requinix@php.net Reported by: php at richardneill dot org Summary: feature-request: user defined superglobals -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Variables related PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Global variables are bad enough without letting developers make more of them. Especially when there's no indication that a variable was defined globally. Maintenance and debugging is a nightmare when you don't know where variables come from or how they got their values. There are plenty of better mechanisms to share data across a script: registry pattern, singletons, dependency injection, even static variables in classes... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-04-05 15:45:29] php at richardneill dot org Description: ------------ When writing a complex web application, it is useful to put common configuration settings, strings, database-connection resources, etc into an array, such as $APPLICATION. However, it's then necessary to pull this in with "global $APPLICATION" into every single function. This leads to uglier code. Test script: --------------- global $X; #wish: *push* X into the global scope. $X = 42; function testit () { //global $X; #wish: not required to pull in $X here. echo "X is $X"; } function testit2 () { //global $X; #... or here, or in 100 other places. echo "X is $X"; } testit(); testit2); etc Expected result: ---------------- It would be a useful enhancement to have one of the following: * allow variables to be "pushed" into the global scope, rather than needing to be pulled in by each function (i.e. declare the variable as global just once in the main body, rather than every single time it's needed in a function). * have a mechanism to create user-defined superglobals (it's currently documented as being explicitly not allowed). * have PHP pre-create an empty superglobal such as $_APP[] or $_USER[] which is reserved for the user to do as he wishes. Thanks for your time - I hope this suggestion is helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67029&edit=1