note 20127 added to language.variables.external

Additional comments on <ojaswi@post.pl>, <darius@nomagiclt.com>, et. al.: You can't refer to superglobals via variable variables inside of functions (see bug #15810), so trying to put the earlier comments of <ojaswi@post.pl> in a function to register globals will not work: function register_globals_regardless() { // non-working version if (!ini_get('register_globals')){ $__am = array('COOKIE','POST','GET'); while (list(,$__m) = each($__am)){ $__ah = &${"_".$__m}; if (!is_array($__ah)) continue; while (list($__n, $__v) = each ($__ah)) $GLOBALS[$__n] = $__v; } } } A kludge until the feature in bug #15810 is added is: function register_globals_regardless() { if (!ini_get('register_globals')) { $__am = array(&$_COOKIE, &$_POST, &$_GET); while (list(,$__m) = each($__am)) { if (is_array($__m)) { $GLOBALS += $__m; } } } } All the kludge function does is explicitly access the superglobals, rather than via variable variables; it also uses references to cut down on copy time. Note the array_merge (the += business) cleans up the code a little. And if you really wanted to get down and dirty, you could just: $GLOBALS += $_GET; $GLOBALS += $_POST; /* etc */ whenever you wanted to make sure you had your globals registered. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20127 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20127 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20127