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variable variables in global - bug?

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Greg Beaver

23 years ago

Hi,

It was brought to my attention that this code is legal in PHP 4:

function foo($param = 'test')
{
global $$param;
echo $$param;
}

$test = 'bar';
foo(); // prints bar

Is this a feature or a bug? (Should we support this syntax in
phpDocumentor, or might it change in php 5?)

Greg

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Sara Golemon

23 years ago

> It was brought to my attention that this code is legal in PHP 4:
>
> function foo($param = 'test')
> {
>      global $$param;
>      echo $$param;
> }
>
> $test = 'bar';
> foo(); // prints bar
>
> Is this a feature or a bug? (Should we support this syntax in
> phpDocumentor, or might it change in php 5?)
>

It's a feature, and it ain't goin' nowhere.

John Coggeshall

23 years ago

I just checked out a copy of HEAD and can't build PHP5, it looks like
some changes were made to rename everything from php4->php5 and there
are still some php4 references floating around that end up in the
Makefile:

[php@localhost ~/php5]$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `libphp4.la', needed by `all'.  Stop.

Looking in the MakeFile one of the problems is OVERALL_TARGET (which
points to libphp4.la instead of libphp5.la) but changing that alone
isn't fixing it. Since I am sure there are those who know the build
system better than I maybe someone else could look at it.

John


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John Coggeshall

23 years ago

N/M... ./buildconf is a wonderful thing... (whoops)

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