Re: Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly

Hello Jochem, Thanks for response, I'm using this aproach maybe more than one year. I did not get any problems. > > there is no real difference between 'global $foo' and $GLOBALS['foo'], > and the second is probably more maintainance friendly (as Rob pionted out) Yes you are right writing global $foo in 25+ functions a bit problematic. > that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up with > a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations > should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of > using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ? Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ? I try to use alternative ways. But maintenance, complexty and speed costs much too high. I did not see any benefit. Robert Cummings says to "you may confusing to setting variable". I have some debugging methots to detect this. And Of course I did not use someting like for($GLOBALS['i']=0;.... And I use GLOBALS for everything for I need someting more than once. (Db pointer or config array etc). Thanks for response Regards Sancar