RE: [PHP] Creating my own super global variables

U'r 100% right Mr Ernest. - Siddharth > -----Original Message----- > From: Ernest E Vogelsinger [mailto:ernest@vogelsinger.at] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:45 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Creating my own super global variables > > At 17:54 24.02.2003, Jason Wong spoke out and said: > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > >On Tuesday 25 February 2003 00:07, Siddharth Hegde wrote: > > > >> Is there any way I can creat my very own super global variables? > > > >All variables defined in the global scope can be accessed via $GLOBALS. > > > >So: > > > > $my_very_own_variable = 'whatnot'; > > > >can be accessed anywhere as: > > > > $GLOBALS['my_very_own_variable'] > > > >For consistency you might want to always refer to it as > >$GLOBALS['my_very_own_variable'], so: > > > > $GLOBALS['my_very_own_variable'] = 'whatnot'; > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > Yes, but the question was for a "superglobal", like $_REQUEST, $_POST, > $_GET, or $_SERVER, so he wants something like $_MYSUPERGLOBAL which is > not > possible afaik. > > If you have a look in main/main.c, there's an array called > "short_track_vars_names" at the very beginning, which is later on looped > and tits contents passed to zend_register_auto_global(), which in turn > adds > the name to a hash structure for autoglobal identifier lookup. These names > are hardcoded and cannot be changed (except when you modify the > distribution source code and recompile). > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php