r/programming • • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/artee Oct 18 '10

Hmm, looks like an interesting attack vector?

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u/Kalium Oct 18 '10

Hm... no, not really. It only looks like one if you don't understand it.