AW: [PEAR-DEV] solution for BC breakage

Stephan Schmidt wrote: > > this sounds like a cool thing. > > this way the system's layout etc. can be changed whenever needed. > > good thing, at first sight ... > > I can see two small problems here: > > 1. Good bye "require_once", welcome "include_once". And I > think require_once is a bit faster, isn't it? I have to test that. It is only an idea for now. > 2. If you are defining any global variables in your files, > you have to use $GLOBALS["myVar"] instead of $myVar. > Otherwise the are not defined in the global scope but inside > the PEAR::load() method. > Not that I'm using globals, but I'm not sure if there are > packages that do things like this... Cache uses globals. The only clean solution I see now would be to get a native php function which includes the PEAR package and maintains the scope. Don't know if this would work even if the php people accept slt. I will try to do some tests within the next days. Maybe I find a solution. Or anyone saying this is crap? I want to hear some opinions before I put work into it ;) regards Daniel Khan