plugins does not hande $GLOBALS correctly

[mathiasdg]

see the code example below. If i run this on the vite dev server with this plugin, it prints null.
When i run this same code on my local apache server it prints the string as is should.

$tbd = 'date has yet to be set';

function formatDate(string $datum): string
{
    var_dump($GLOBALS['tbd']);

...
}

Is this a bug? Or is there another way to use PHP globals with Vite?
Is there a workaround?

Thanks a lot!
Love the plugin

[donnikitos]

Hi @mathiasdg,

interesting observation! In theory that should work as usual, but who knows if the configuration of PHPs build in dev-server is a little different from production or not...

A couple of questions:

1. Is the variable in the same file as the function?
2. Does it work with global $tbd; inside the function?

What I can say for sure, we have been explicitly setting the globals like:

$GLOBALS['tbd'] = 'date has yet to be set';

That does work for sure.

[mathiasdg]

Hi @donnikitos ,

thanks for the quick reply.

1. yes, the variable is in the same file as the function
2. no, binding the variable from global scope into local scope with global has no effect

I did not think about setting the global explicitly, but that indeed works without a problem, so I will take that approach.

Thank you