RE: [PHP] How to access arrays from $GLOBAL?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:09:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] How to access arrays from $GLOBAL? | ||
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I am not sure there is any. $GLOBALS is simply an array that contains
individual references to each global variable.
For example:
$a = 1;
$GLOBALS['a'] = 2;
echo $a;
gives you 2
The best documentation is probably the basic explanation of how references
work. http://php.net/references
-Rasmus
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Hunter, Ray wrote:
> Where is some good documentation on how $GLOBALS works and what is really
> going on in the background?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ray Hunter
> Firmware Engineer
>
> ENTERASYS NETWORKS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:53 AM
> To: Richard Davey
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] How to access arrays from $GLOBAL?
>
>
> I don't understand why you think it is illogical. How else would you
> dereference a multi-dimensional array?
>
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Richard Davey wrote:
>
> > "Mike Ford" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk> wrote in message
> >
> > news:7E070107F405BA4790C43526CC4985A10132AA8B@lis-exchange3.lmu.ac.uk.
> > ..
> > > $GLOBALS['mtxt'][1]
> >
> > Fantastic :)
> >
> > That's totally illogical but it works a treat.
> > PHP has some weird syntax rules sometimes!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rich
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