note 92951 deleted from function.define by cmb

Note Submitter: bohwaz.net ---- Note that define don't care at all about the constant name, you can give everything as a constant name, even if the PHP documentation says that the allowed characters are [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]* Just try this : <?php define('anything::()$', 'test'); ?> You won't be able to access this constant though, it will throw a parse error, either through constant() or define(), but if you do that : <?php print_r(get_defined_constants()); ?> You will see that the constant is registered at the end of the array. Yes that's totally useless. But you can try other things that will work with constant() : <?php define('...', 'test'); echo constant('...'); ?> Will echo 'test'. Yeah that's a pretty strange behavior. And please note that defining object constants outside of objets don't work : <?php class myObject { } define('myObject::CONSTANT', 'test'); ?>