Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #6191: Can't return global variable when defined with a dynamic name using eval From: John Bafford (dshadow <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/00

Why not do this?

function _global($__name) {
        return $GLOBALS[$__name];
}

That works without using global or eval().

-John

At 2:21 +0000 8/16/00, smaug <email protected> wrote:
>this doesn't work:
>
>function _global($___name) {
> eval('global $' . $___name . ';');
> eval('return $' . $___name . ';');
>} 

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John Bafford
dshadow <email protected>
http://www.dshadow.com/

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