<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Macros for Automatic Global Variable Creation</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Creating Variables" HREF="zend.variables.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Resources" HREF="zend.variables.resource.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Creating Constants" HREF="zend.variables.constant.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="zend.variables.resource.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Cap. 35. Creating Variables</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="zend.variables.constant.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="zend.variables.global" >Macros for Automatic Global Variable Creation</A ></H1 ><P > In addition to the macros discussed earlier, a few macros allow easy creation of simple global variables. These are nice to know in case you want to introduce global flags, for example. This is somewhat bad practice, but Table <A HREF="zend.variables.global.html#tab.macros-global-vars" >Tabel 35-5</A > describes macros that do exactly this task. They don't need any <VAR CLASS="envar" >zval</VAR > allocation; you simply have to supply a variable name and value. </P ><DIV CLASS="table" ><A NAME="tab.macros-global-vars" ></A ><P ><B >Tabel 35-5. Macros for Global Variable Creation</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL WIDTH="1*" TITLE="col1"><COL WIDTH="1*" TITLE="col2"><TBODY ><TR ><TD >Macro</TD ><TD >Description</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><VAR CLASS="literal" >SET_VAR_STRING(name, value)</VAR ></TD ><TD >Creates a new string.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><VAR CLASS="literal" >SET_VAR_STRINGL(name, value, length)</VAR ></TD ><TD >Creates a new string of the specified length. This macro is faster than <VAR CLASS="literal" >SET_VAR_STRING</VAR > and also binary-safe.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><VAR CLASS="literal" >SET_VAR_LONG(name, value)</VAR ></TD ><TD >Creates a new long.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><VAR CLASS="literal" >SET_VAR_DOUBLE(name, value)</VAR ></TD ><TD >Creates a new double.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="zend.variables.resource.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="zend.variables.constant.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Resources</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="zend.variables.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Creating Constants</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >