So a theory question for all you PHP Guru's out there

[crabpot8]

So I am building a web service that generates charts from a large amount of data. The problem I am running into is that to generate one chart, there can be up to 5 requests set. The variable preservation was just getting ridiculous.

So, question is - what is the best solution. I would like to have some sort of global variables, but register globals is turned off (I don't think that actually stops me from using the global keyword, just the globals array - please correct me if I am wrong)

My solution so far has been to create two files.

One is called set_globals, which declares an array and initializes all the key/value pairs to defaults. 
THe second is called preserve variables, which simple checks if any request variables were sent and sets them in the array if they were not. At the top of the preserve variables file, I just require_once the set_globals.

I have included preserve variables in every script that needs it, and it seems to be working well.


So, is there a better way?

[Markus]

I'm not too sure about the problem here, but could SESSIONs help?

[dlite922]

I'm not too sure about the problem here, but could SESSIONs help?

uh....Yah!

Why wouldn't session work?

If the data needs to be secure, save session in database.

[Atli]

... I would like to have some sort of global variables, but register globals is turned off (I don't think that actually stops me from using the global keyword, just the globals array - please correct me if I am wrong)...

Actually, the register_global s directive only disables / enables the automatic creation of global variables for all REQUEST variables.

It has no effect on either the global keyword or the $GLOBALS array.