Re: [PHP-DEV] Tie'ing variables

At 18:11 01.03.2003, Derick Rethans wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > Analyzing PHP's routines a bit, it seems that the slowest part of a
> > "generic" request is populating the special arrays, $_ENV, $_GET, etc.
> >
> > I was wondering if it might be possible to "tie" these arrays to a
> > function (if you don't understand that, look at Perl for a definition).
> > One could populate them as an overloaded object, and then array accesses
> > would work - I guess.  But I would prefer a cleaner mechanism.
>
>Why not just populate them when you need them? IE, if you access
>$_GET['foo'] it processes the GET data until it has processed upto foo
>in the data itself(and of course it adds the other ones that are
>before 'foo' in the GET data to the array too). With this you never
>process more data then you really need...

And for a quick start it would be enogh to simply initialize these vars upon
first access. If we can do this the rest might be easy -> "devide and conquer"!

marcus