best practices: using globals

[redneck]

I have a question about best practices.

To keep things modular, I use a couple of arrays of text phrases for all the text in my application (one for error messages, another for all the rest). Needless to say, almost every function in the application needs to access one or the other (or both) of these arrays.

So should I pass the arrays as parameters whenever calling the functions, or just declare them in the functions using the globals statement? What are the pros or cons of one approach vs the other?

[Mordecai]

Well, this is a matter of opinion; no one can say for sure what is best here.

I would suggest using the global declaration for one major reason: it's easier on yourself. You don't have to type in both arrays EACH time you call the function, however many times you call it.

Both have the same result, but one's a lot easier.

[ahundiak]

I agree with Mordecai. Use globals for these sort of things.

If you do go with the arg passing approach, then only make one master $env array/class. This way, you only need to pass one argument. The $env would in turn contain your two arrays.

Sure would be nice if we could declare something to be super global like $_POST;