Re: how to get var name and value from function?

On 4/19/07, Ford, Mike <M.Ford@leedsmet.ac.uk> wrote:

On 19 April 2007 04:36, Richard Lynch wrote: 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... Well the definition of $GLOBALS says: "Contains a reference to every variable which is currently available within the global scope of the script." I take that to mean reference as in the & operator, so that $GLOBALS['foo'] is a reference to $foo, and when you assign to a reference you also assign to.... But, notwithstanding that, how about Example 12.3 at http://php.net/global#language.variables.scope.global? Cheers! Mike

Hmm, that's quite ugly, what happens when defining a variable outside, and inside a function. and then get the reference to it? Will the first var be overwritten, and when the function ends, it will refer to the old var again? Tijnema

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