note 98835 deleted from function.include by peehaa

Note Submitter: emanueledelgrande ad email dot it ---- 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!