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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Question about superglobals
From: michaelm@swplumb.com (Michael McGlothlin)

I think the superglobal keyword is a great idea. I have a custom class 
that implements a custom interface to memcache with a MySQL backend for 
data that drops out of memcache or is to big to be stored easily in 
memcache. I get annoyed at needing to include a global statement in 
every place I want to use memcache.
> Thanks everyone, I knew this, but I didn't want to use runkit because it
> is a beta, and i don't want all that other stuff, just superglobals.
> Also, runkit only allows you to use php.ini, but my patch allows you to
> specify superglobals in your script with the keyword "superglobal" by
> saying:
>
> superglobal $var1, $var2 ;
>
> Thanks for your help though, if anyone else is interested in the patch
> send me a message. 
>
> This isn't something the developers would want to implement I assume,
> but it would be useful if they would, at a very small cost too (the
> patch probably under 50 lines, very simple code too). If anyone would
> like the patch to be implemented in CVS, let me know.
>
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:58 +0100, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
>   
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> you could use pecl/runkit for registering your own super globals. See
>> example 2071 on http://de3.php.net/manual/en/ref.runkit.php
>>
>> johannes
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:53 -0500, Sam Barrow wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>
>   


-- 
Michael McGlothlin
Southwest Plumbing Supply