Permanently "global" ?

[mrbog]

I have an array/hash that stores path information for my app. As in,
what directory this is in, what directory that's in, what the name of
the site is, what the products are called, etc. It's called $glb.

So, every function so far looks like this:

function something() {
global $glb;
}

over and over and over

How do I make $glb just always be global? I'm assuming there's a way
to do this, otherwise let me know and I'll parachute out of this
language and run back home to perl.

thanks
mrb


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[Cecile Muller]

> PHP is the only language (well except for obscure languages that no

one uses) that requires the programmer to explicitly bring a global
into scope. The whole point of a global is that it's always in scope.
That's what a global is supposed to be.

And that's why $GLOBALS is there. When you work with several people,
it prevents from messing with the other people's variables given they
are local unless speficied otherwise. Also when you will re-read your
code in a year, you will know immediatly if your variable is local or
global. Btw, you could also send it as parameter of the function
instead, so that you don't need to change every occurence in all the
functions using it if you change the name of the global variable, plus
it will be easier for re-using the function in other scripts.

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PHP is the only language (well except for obscure languages that no
one uses) that requires the programmer to explicitly bring a global
into scope. The whole point of a global is that it's always in scope.
That's what a global is supposed to be.

Well, the alternative would be having to declare variables as local, like
Javascript. In C/C++ it makes sense, since you need to declare the type
anyway. But for a typeless language, PHP's arrangement is quite reasonable.
It's hilarious sometimes when I see JS code where properties of the window
object are used as looping variables.