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Bug #53 $GLOBALS[] type
Submitted: 1998-02-10 22:23 UTC Modified: 1998-02-11 12:34 UTC
From: tomo at arts dot box dot co dot jp Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Other
PHP Version: 3.0b4 OS: FreeBSD
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-02-10 22:23 UTC] tomo at arts dot box dot co dot jp 
'echo gettype($GLOBALS)' shows "string".

is it true?

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 [1998-02-11 12:34 UTC] andi 
$GLOBALS is a special variable. It is used to access global variables, like $GLOBALS["global_var"] but it 
cannot be used for anything else. You can't directly reference $GLOBALS, that is you can't do $a =$GLOBALS
 (the result will be false, which happens to be the empty string and thus you got a string type). 
Note that you can destroy $GLOBALS. If you do $GLOBALS=1, $GLOBALS will start acting like a regular 
local variable in the specific functions life time.
 
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