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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] register_globals work arounds
From: rich@richgray.com (rich gray)


On 02/08/2012 13:51, Lester Caine wrote:
> OK
>
> No discussions on why register_globals has been removed we all 
> understand why and now have to live with that ... I'm not winging here!
>
> The question is "Does anybody have an 'elegant' fix to quickly update 
> a legacy site that relies on globals to pass variables between page 
> views?"
> My original quick thought was simply to remap these variables as 
> $_SESSION['var'] so as not to get too deeply into the code base. I've 
> used that in a few quick fixes, but I'm not sure that it is 
> acceptable? I have been passing the variables via $_REQUEST but that 
> obviously needs a lot more work in the html generated, so the session 
> approach would seem better? But needs to observe the European rules on 
> use of cookies :(
>
> I'm thinking that what is needed is a sort of PEAR package that would 
> simply be added to every page and be provided with a list of variables 
> to manage, so all we need to do is scan the site for variables and 
> establish which need to be remembered. I've got all sorts of stuff 
> from google/bing searches, but I'm obviously not yet asking the right 
> question ;) Has anybody already been down that track?
>
IMO - this should be posted on PHP general not internals -- have you 
tried extract() ?
http://fr2.php.net/extract

Rich