note 98835 added to function.include

About the problem to include a script in the global scope, after many tests with different solutions, I reached my point. I post it in the hope it may be useful. At first I built my "globalScopeSimulator" class, but an include called inside a class is not the best solution: if it contains some user code, the user will access to the $this reserved variable and even to all the private members... Critical issue! That's why I turned back into a function solution. Another advantage is that I didn't have to make use of the deprecable "global" keyword, since I *imported* the global scope inside the function, with the extract() function. Using the EXTR_REFS flag this trick does not waste memory, since the extracted variables are not a copy, but a reference to the global ones. <?php function global_include($script_path) { // check if the file to include exists: if (isset($script_path) && is_file($script_path)) { // extract variables from the global scope: extract($GLOBALS, EXTR_REFS); ob_start(); include($script_path); return ob_get_clean(); } else { ob_clean(); trigger_error('The script to parse in the global scope was not found'); } } ?> Hope it helps... :) Cheers and happy coding! ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 93.34.182.193 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/98835 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98835 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/98835 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php