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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:54:01 -0800
To: Michael Virnstein <michael.virnstein@web.de>,internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Using Superglobals for variable variables works
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
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The idea is that the following doesn't work by design:
$a = "_GET";
var_dump($$a);

At 11:31 PM 1/28/2005 +0100, Michael Virnstein wrote:
>Hi PHP-Devs,
>
>i don't know if it is a bug or a new feature of php5. The php manual says, 
>that using superglobals for variable variables isn't working, so something 
>like this shouldn't work:
>
><?php
>
>$a = 'hello world';
>
>echo ${$_GET['test']};
>
>?>
>
>Actually it does work. Is this intended now? Would be nice, but if it is a 
>simple bug and i can't rely on it to work in the future, i won't use it. 
>Hope it is a feature though. ;)
>
>Regards, Michael
>
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