Re: default extension for includes?

Justin French wrote:

On 23/11/2004, at 12:44 PM, Jake Press wrote:

Justin, 'Use the force luke' - or perhaps just write yourself a function to do this :)

Sadly, included files inside functions don't inherit the global namespace, so you have to do something ridiculous like extract($GLOBALS) inside the function: function includer($thing)

    {
    extract($GLOBALS);
    include($thing.".inc");
    }

The extract isn't too expensive, but it's definitely something I'd like to avoid if possible.

This would not work, extract creates a copy of the variables, changing them in $thing . '.inc' will have no efect outside of the file. You would have to loop $GLOBALS and assign by reference, while skipping superglobals.