#19352 [Opn->Bgs]: can't dynamically access superglobals

ID: 19352 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: soletan@toxa.de -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php The last paragraph.. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-11 04:07:39] soletan@toxa.de 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 this is obsolete, isn't it?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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19352&edit=1