Posted by tony on 04/18/06 11:24

In article <1145310837.226085.226960@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
kenrbnsn@gmail.com says...

> Here's another way of doing this.
>
> <?php
> // custom global array
> $myArray = array("some", "elements");
>
> // array with names of global arrays you want to access
> $globalArrayNames =
> array(array('$_SERVER',$_SERVER),array('$_POST',$_POST),
> array("myArray",$myArray));
>
> // parameter is global array name
> function showThisArray($globalArrayName) {
> echo("<br><br>" . "[ " . $globalArrayName[0] . " ]<br>");
> echo '<pre>' . print_r($globalArrayName[1],true) . '</pre>';
> }
>
> showThisArray($globalArrayNames[0]);
> showThisArray($globalArrayNames[1]);
> showThisArray($globalArrayNames[2]);
> ?>
>
>
> Ken
>
>

And there was me thinking it couldnt be done ... ;-)
Now we have two ways.

Correct me if I'm wrong though Ken but doesnt this method pass the actual
array rather than just the name?

I'm not sure because I'm not able to work out what this is doing exactly
(I'm new to PHP as you may have gathered)

tony

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