Re: $GLOBALS array

Why aren't you using the $_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS array? -- Gaylen gfraley5@earthlink.net Home http://www.gaylenandmargie.com/ PHP KISGB v2.6 Guest Book http://www.gaylenandmargie.com/phpwebsite/ "Philip Maciver" <philipmaciver@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20011224000848.4e893de7.philipmaciver@yahoo.com... > Does anyone know if it is possible to use the > > 'global $varName' > > function with the '$GLOBALS' array itself. > > I have been having some trouble with this. I have decieded to switch of register_globals in the php.ini file (seeing as > it is now deprecated in version 4.1.0) > I know that register_globals is still supported, but I would like to get used to not using it. > But anyway, the problem I am having is that when I post data from a form to another page the data is not available > globally, so I wrote a method to register them globally, it looks like this > > function globaliseVars($varArray) { > global $GLOBALS; > > while (list($varName,$var) = each($varArray)) { > $GLOBALS[trim($varName)] = trim($var); > } > } > > But doing 'global $GLOBALS' doesn't seem to make it refer to the actual '$GLOBALS' array, the only time it did work was > when I place something into the '$GLOBALS' array on the page that calls the function. So > > /** > * This doesn't work > */ > globaliseVars($HTTP_POST_VARS); > > > /** > * But this does > */ > $GLOBALS["ANYTHING"] = "anything"; > globaliseVars($HTTP_POST_VARS); > > If anyone could help me with this problem please could they get in touch, because its driving me crazy. > > Thanks! > > ============== > Philip MacIver