note 61389 rejected from language.variables.scope by nlopess

Note Submitter: php at rebel dot com dot au ---- Daft Truly Daft PHP is frustrating, you seemed to spend 1/2 your time working around "unusual" design decisions such as having to declare globals as global before you can access them. this causes problems. For instance. if while inside a function or class scope you are required to call a third party script using include('3rdparty.php'). That third party script then defines 'global' variables Now a function within that 3rd party script wants to access those variables, so it does the right thing and predeclares the variable with 'global' ie: global $globalvar; But guess what, because the script was included inside your class those so called global variables are not actually global variables any more and the function fails. any ideas on a fix? my attempts have only produced redeclaration errors. If there is a way around this it NEEDS to be documented By the way most of these issues have been solved in other languages. why does PHP repeat the errors of history?