__autocreate() function for non-existing variables View as Markdown

I don't see need for this magic. You can implement this using a simple
singleton pattern, if you need it. I don't think we want to add features
that will condone the use of globals, a singleton class is a much better
solution for that.

Zeev

At 06:10 20/08/2003, Vesselin Atanasov wrote:

Hello.
I think that it would be useful to allow an __autocreate() function create
non-existing
variables just like __autoload is called for non-existing classes. The
function will be
called when an attempt is made to read a non-existent variable. It will
return a reference
to the new variable it creates. This could be very useful in some cases. For
example it
could be used in a php library that creates a database object. When some
function tries to
use the database object, the __autocreate function will check if a global
database object
exists. If it does not exist the function will create the database object as
global and
in either case return a reference to the object.

I am willing to implement this functionality, but I'd like to hear the
opinion of the PHP
developers first and especially of the Zend2 team because this functionality
will modify
the Zend2 engine.

vesselin