#19352 [NEW]: can't dynamically access superglobals

From: soletan@toxa.de Operating system: Linux 2.4.18 PHP version: 4.2.3 PHP Bug Type: *General Issues Bug description: can't dynamically access superglobals Hi, I'm running Apache 2.0.40 with PHP 4.2.3 as DSO. Within my scripts I realised a problem that I tried to test specially now with a smaller script. ----------------------- <?php $method = "_GET"; echo $$method["id"]; var_dump( $$method ); ?> ----------------------- produces on call with ?id=the+test added to the script's URL ----------------------- array(1) { ["id"]=> string(8) "the test" } ----------------------- The echo output isn't there. If I try to assign it to some other value it gets set to NULL. Is it a general change of PHP's behaviour or any error? Earlier I used this to reload a form's values, after dynamically creating and arranging it into some structure. However, that days I used the non-superglobal $HTTP_GET|POST_VAR ... this is obsolete, isn't it? And that's why I won't get back to use it any further ... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19352&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19352&r=globals