RE: [PHP] how to get var name and value from function?

On Wed, April 18, 2007 4:57 am, Ford, Mike wrote: > On 17 April 2007 01:18, Richard Lynch wrote: >> Or is it explicitly stated in the manual somewhere I'm not seeing >> that >> one can put things in $GLOBALS directly? [shrug] > > http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php#language.variables.superglobals When I read that section of the manual, along with similar variables, such as: $_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_FILES, $_ENV, $_REQUEST I do not, in my mind, see anything indicating that it is a documented feature that cramming some value into $_GLOBALS['foo'] is specifically supported... In fact, considering the context, $_GLOBALS would be the ONLY one, other than $_SESSION, which would be writable, really. I mean, okay, you can cram things into $_POST, but that doesn't make them magically have been posted from the browser, and you can cram stuff into $_ENV, but, afaik, that isn't the same as calling SetEnv, is it? And you can't cram stuff into $_COOKIE to set cookies, right? You sure can't cram a file into $_FILES easily... :-) So, to me at least, I'm not reading that as a script-writable array to alter global data, since there is no special notation there that one can alter global variables just by hacking into that array. Since there *IS* a globals syntax documented, I'm gonna stick with that, personally, as a Documented Feature. But this is just what *I*, a known heretic, consider Best Practice. Y'all do whatever you want. :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?