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"Philip Maciver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Does anyone know if it is possible to use the > > 'global $varName' > > function with the '$GLOBALS' array itself. > > I have been having some trouble with this. I have decieded to switch of register_globals in the php.ini file (seeing as > it is now deprecated in version 4.1.0) > I know that register_globals is still supported, but I would like to get used to not using it. > But anyway, the problem I am having is that when I post data from a form to another page the data is not available > globally, so I wrote a method to register them globally, it looks like this > > function globaliseVars($varArray) { > global $GLOBALS; > > while (list($varName,$var) = each($varArray)) { > $GLOBALS[trim($varName)] = trim($var); > } > } > > But doing 'global $GLOBALS' doesn't seem to make it refer to the actual '$GLOBALS' array, the only time it did work was > when I place something into the '$GLOBALS' array on the page that calls the function. So > > /** > * This doesn't work > */ > globaliseVars($HTTP_POST_VARS); > > > /** > * But this does > */ > $GLOBALS["ANYTHING"] = "anything"; > globaliseVars($HTTP_POST_VARS); > > If anyone could help me with this problem please could they get in touch, because its driving me crazy. > > Thanks! > > ============== > Philip MacIver -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
