Watch out when you are trying to set $GLOBALS to the local variable.
Even without reference operator "&" your variable seems to be referenced to the $GLOBALS
You can test this behaviour using below code
<?php
/**
* Result:
* POST: B, Variable: C
* GLOBALS: C, Variable: C
*/
// Testing $_POST
$_POST['A'] = 'B';
$nonReferencedPostVar = $_POST;
$nonReferencedPostVar['A'] = 'C';
echo 'POST: '.$_POST['A'].', Variable: '.$nonReferencedPostVar['A']."\n\n";
// Testing Globals
$GLOBALS['A'] = 'B';
$nonReferencedGlobalsVar = $GLOBALS;
$nonReferencedGlobalsVar['A'] = 'C';
echo 'GLOBALS: '.$GLOBALS['A'].', Variable: '.$nonReferencedGlobalsVar['A']."\n\n";
$GLOBALS
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
$GLOBALS — Referenziert alle Variablen, die im globalen Gültigkeitsbereich vorhanden sind
Beschreibung
Ein assoziatives Array, das Referenzen auf alle Variablen enthält, die derzeit im globalen Gültigkeitsbereich (Scope) des Skripts bekannt sind. Die Namen der jeweiligen Variablen sind die Schlüsselwerte, um auf den Inhalt der jeweils referenzierten Variablen zuzugreifen.
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 $GLOBALS-Beispiel
<?php
function test() {
$foo = "local variable";
echo '$foo in global scope: ' . $GLOBALS["foo"] . "\n";
echo '$foo in current scope: ' . $foo . "\n";
}
$foo = "Example content";
test();
?>
Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt eine ähnliche Ausgabe wie:
$foo in global scope: Example content $foo in current scope: local variable
Anmerkungen
Hinweis:
Dies ist eine 'Superglobale' oder automatisch globale Variable. Dies bedeutet, dass sie innerhalb des Skripts in jedem Geltungsbereich sichtbar ist. Es ist nicht nötig, sie mit global $variable bekannt zu machen, um aus Funktionen oder Methoden darauf zuzugreifen.
Hinweis: Verfügbarkeit der Variablen
Im Gegensatz zu allen anderen Superglobals ist $GLOBALS notwendigerweise immer in PHP verfügbar.
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
mstraczkowski at gmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
therandshow at gmail dot com ¶
6 years ago
As of PHP 5.4 $GLOBALS is now initialized just-in-time. This means there now is an advantage to not use the $GLOBALS variable as you can avoid the overhead of initializing it. How much of an advantage that is I'm not sure, but I've never liked $GLOBALS much anyways.
vittorio.zamparella at famous googlemail ¶
9 months ago
I finally found information about superglobals not being found in $GLOBALS:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65223&edit=2
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[2013-07-09 12:00 UTC] johannes @php.net
[...]super-globals (aka. auto globals) are not added to symbol tables by default for performance reasons unless the parser sees need. i.e.
<?php
$_SERVER;
print_r($GLOBALS);
?>
will list it. You can also control this using auto_gloals_jit in php.ini: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.auto-globals-jit
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http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php
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Warning
Please note that variable variables cannot be used with PHP's Superglobal arrays within functions or class methods. The variable $this is also a special variable that cannot be referenced dynamically.
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stevenjeffries at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
I ran into the case where I needed to know if my script was in the global scope or not.
You can use $GLOBALS to figure out which case that is:
<?php // file foo.php
$some_unique_prefix_foo = "ok";
if (isset($GLOBALS["some_unique_prefix_foo"])) {
echo "Foo is in global scope.\n";
} else {
echo "Foo is NOT in global scope.\n";
}
unset($some_unique_prefix_foo);
// Inside another file.
function test() {
include "foo.php";
}
test();
?>
Outputs:
Foo is in global scope.
Foo is NOT in global scope.
