Hi,

I've turned error_reporting() to die() the execution of my scripts as soon as any error, warning, notice, etc is encountered. 

Yet, in the example global_test() function below, $some_undefined_variable, which is never set, is declared global, and $another_undefined_variable is never set and isn't declared global. isset() returns false on both variables, yet only the line "print $another_undefined_variable;" triggers an error.

Here's the code:
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<? 

function allErrorsFatal ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) {
  global $ERROR_STR;
  echo "<b>Error</b> [" . $ERROR_STR[$errno] . "] $errstr<br>\n";
  echo "Fatal error in line ".$errline." of file ".$errfile."<br>";
  exit -1;
  break;
} 

$ERROR_STR = array(1 => 'ERROR', 2 => 'WARNING', 4 => 'PARSE',
                   8 => 'NOTICE', 16 => 'CORE_ERROR', 32 => 'CORE_WARNING',
                   64 => 'COMPILE_ERROR', 128 => 'COMPILE_WARNING', 256 => 'USER_ERROR',
                   512 => 'USER_WARNING', 1024 => 'USER_NOTICE');

error_reporting (E_ALL);
set_error_handler("allErrorsFatal");


function global_test() {
	global $some_undefined_variable;
	if (isset($some_undefined_variable)) {
		print "some_undefined_variable is set - \n";
	} else {
		print "some_undefined_variable is not set - \n";
	}
	print $some_undefined_variable;
	if (isset($another_undefined_variable)) {
		print "another_undefined_variable is set - \n";
	} else {
		print "another_undefined_variable is not set - \n";
	}
	print $another_undefined_variable;
}

global_test();

?>
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Outputs:
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some_undefined_variable is not set - 
another_undefined_variable is not set - 
<b>Error</b> [NOTICE] Undefined variable:  another_undefined_variable<br>
Fatal error in line 33 of file /[...]/global_test.php<br>
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IMHO, the line "print $some_undefined_variable;" should trigger the notice. Apparently, the global keyword incorrectly affects the way $some_undefined_variable is handled by the parser later on.

-Kai Schutte