Re: [PHP] Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly

Hello Jochem,

Thanks for response, I'm using this aproach maybe more than one year. I did
not get any problems.

there is no real difference between 'global $foo' and $GLOBALS['foo'],
and the second is probably more maintainance friendly (as Rob pionted out)

Yes you are right writing global $foo in 25+ functions a bit problematic.

that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up with
a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations
should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of
using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho

And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ?
Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ?

I try to use alternative ways. But maintenance, complexty and speed costs much
too high.

I did not see any benefit.

Robert Cummings says to "you may confusing to setting variable". I have some
debugging methots to detect this.

And Of course I did not use someting like for($GLOBALS['i']=0;....

And I use GLOBALS for everything for I need someting more than once. (Db
pointer or config array etc).

Thanks for response

Regards

Sancar
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