silkfire Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Has anyone encountered this bug which had me banging my head against the desk all morning? In the beginning I registered a $GLOBALS['direction'] that equalled to a radio button value. Later in the script I declare a variable $direction that for some strange reason took the value of $GLOBALS['direction'] without me even writing so. So when i compared them they had the same value. As soon as I changed $direction to $directionx the script worked and the value wasn't "copied" to the $GLOBALS. What's up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 This is not a bug. This is supposed to happen. By using $GLOBALS you reference any variables you create a key for in the global scope! You should use caution with global variables as you are experiencing the issues now. I avoid like the plague or use very scarcely such as a database connection handle that is required in a function i.e function foobar() { global $db; } Read the PHP manual http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.globals.php Global variables are dangerous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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