note 21443 added to function.extract

Extract provides an invaluable way to get around the possibility of the PHP directive register_globals being off or on. If you're used to register_globals being on, and you're worried that new PHP 4.2.0 implementations will mess up existing code (because it now defaults to off), try using this: if (!empty($_GET)) { extract($_GET); } else if (!empty($HTTP_GET_VARS)) { extract($HTTP_GET_VARS); } if (!empty($_POST)) { extract($_POST); } else if (!empty($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { extract($HTTP_POST_VARS); } That's from PHPMyAdmin (to give proper credit), and the same thing would probably be useful elsewhere. Thanks, Steve -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+21443 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+21443 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+21443