Re: What am I not understanding about $GLOBALS['myvar'] vs global $myvar?

No, you misunderstand. The key is simply a string. Just as "print foo;" is wrong, $array[foo] is wrong (unless foo is a constant, of course). If you do "print '$variable';", it will print the literal string "$variable". It will not print the value of $variable. You should either use double quotes or no quotes. Johnson, Kirk wrote:

I think you either want to use no quotes or double quotes, but not single quotes. Double quotes will interpolate the variable, single quotes will not, i.e. $key becomes a string literal rather than a variable. No quotes will work, although the docs seem to indicate it is deprecated syntax. Not everyone agrees that it is deprecated, though ;) Kirk

$GLOBALS[$key] is incorrect and depricated AFAIK. $GLOBALS['$key'] (with the single quotes) is the proper way to write these types of associative arrays/hashs.

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