note 79982 deleted from language.variables.external by danbrown

Note Submitter: pepesantillan at gmail dot com ---- [someone] on 04-Mar-2003 07:21 wrote: "...the dot (period, full stop) is not a valid character in a PHP variable name." That's not completely correct, consider this example: $GLOBALS['foo.bar'] = 'baz'; echo ${'foo.bar'}; This will output baz as expected. _____________________________________________ Its a really old post but I just wanted to point out... thats a key he is talking about - 'foo.bar' - not a variable, and a key can be a string or a number.