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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Question about superglobals
From: sean@caedmon.net (Sean Coates)

> Yes, and in even larger scale applications it can become even more
> useful. I have a web framework I'm working on, it's about 9,500  
> lines of
> code now with hundreds of functions/classes. Every function/method has
> to specify global for my 3 universal variables which contain large
> arrays of configuration information. With this, I can say "superglobal
> $mod, $sec, $cfg" in my root include file, and not worry about it  
> again.

class Config {
	const FOO = "Bar";
}

function oink() {
	if (Config::FOO == 'Bar') {
		echo "OINK";
	}
}

etc.
IMO, you really don't need more superglobals.

S