Re: superglobals

Sounds better to have it compiled in, cause otherwise some ppl will for sure start using it in their scripts, and stuff wont be portable and lots of setup issues and.. .. Well.. You get the point.. Also, can someone give me a link with an explanation of what aspects are? I read about it few years ago, but I never really understood it... So anyone? -- // DvDmanDT MSN: dvdmandt¤hotmail.com Mail: dvdmandt¤telia.com "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> skrev i meddelandet news:20040409153101.43112.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I looked into just this thing a couple months ago and (Davey Shafik wanted > to create an _APPLICATION superglobal to make supersessions that would be > shared amongst all users of a particular application). Unfortunately, what > Wez just stated is absolutlely the case. > > Any superglobals must be defined *prior* to compile time so registering > superglobals from within an application (via something like > superglobal_create('_FOO'); ) would not work. > > The best you'd be able to manage would be to create an .ini option to > specify superglobals you want defined. Further, such a module could not be > loaded by dl(), but would have to be loaded in an extension directive (or > compiled in staticly). > > php.ini: > extension=php_superglobals.so > superglobals.user = _FOO, _BAR, _BAZ, _APPLICATION, _ASPECT, etc.... > > <?php > $_FOO = "Foo"; > > function bar() { > echo $_FOO; > } > > bar(); > > > -Sara > > "Wez Furlong" <wez@thebrainroom.com> wrote in message > news:052201c41e1a$da802270$8a02a8c0@tron... > > as I recall, superglobals are resolved at script compile time, so > > a superglobal() function you can call from PHP won't be possible. > > > > You can add your own superglobals in your extension; however, since > > this isn't really going to meet the needs of others, it probably > > won't make sense to put it into PECL. (unless you have a really > > cool useful idea ;-) > > > > --Wez. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> > > To: "Andrey Hristov" <php@hristov.com> > > Cc: "Jackson Miller" <jackson@tekzen.net>; "PHP-PECL" > > <pecl-dev@lists.php.net>; <marcus@skysaber.com> > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 11:00 AM > > Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] superglobals > > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 05:45, Andrey Hristov wrote: > > > > Jackson Miller wrote: > > > > > Please excuse me if this is not an appropriate forum for this > > question. > > > > > > > > > > The short question is: > > > > > Is it possibly to create a PECL extension for PHP that adds a new > > (empty) > > > > > superglobal variable? If so, then I am assuming it would be > possible > > to > > > > > create a PECL extension for adding a superglobal() method. > > > > > > > > > > I know this question has been discussed on php-dev a few times, but > > those > > > > > discussions have resulted in no solution (and I was not part of > those > > > > > discussions). > > > > > > > > AFAIR it was decided that adding such a function is a bad idea. > > > > > > PECL is about special needs though, is it not? I don't see why an > > > outcome decided by internals should affect something in PECL. Is it > > > possible anyways to added a new super globals entry via an extension?