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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:53:11 -0500
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Subject: Question about superglobals
From: sam@sambarrow.com (Sam Barrow)

I am trying to develop a patch for personal use to enable custom
superglobals.

I seemed to have had it working, but am I allowed to specify
superglobals in my script, or do they have to be specified in an ini
file or statically in the PHP code? 

I created a superglobal keyword and a function that calls
zend_register_auto_global upon the use of this keyword, but it doesn't
work. It calls zend_register_auto_global correctly and passes the
variable name and length of the variable name, but when i try to access
the variable inside a function in my PHP script, it is undefined.
However I am able to hard code my superglobal into the PHP source files
and it works.

Is there some type of restriction on setting superglobals at runtime, or
does the structure of the PHP interpreter not allow this, or am I doing
something wrong?

Thanks in advanced for your help.