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James Bathgate commented on THRIFT-717: --------------------------------------- +1 > Global variables should not be used for configuration of PHP library > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: THRIFT-717 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-717 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Library (PHP) > Reporter: Nicholas Telford > Original Estimate: 2h > Remaining Estimate: 2h > > The Thrift PHP library makes gratuitous use of the $GLOBALS array to store > basic configuration. > Globals in PHP are generally bad practice, so I suggest something else: Use > constants. > Being immutable, constants are more secure than globals (that could be > overwritten in scripts susceptible to injection attacks); they also perform > much better, since the $GLOBALS variable is a hash-table, lookups are > comparatively expensive. > I will attach a patch soon unless anyone has any better ideas. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.