gcworld / globals

4.0.6 2026-04-08 19:22 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• ext-json: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• ramsey/uuid: >=4.0

MIT

• GameCharmer

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-04-08 19:22 UTC

README

GLOBALS allows you to easily manage your global variables in PHP by filtering the content automatically or specifically, with batch processing possible in case of array.

This implementation is a fork of the original Coercive/Globals available at https://github.com/Coercive/Globals

I've been using an override in composer.json for a while to use the fork over the original, but seeing as how they've diverged, felt it was a better idea to try and separate namespaces and packages.

Note: This package contains a class used to ease transition pains that will conflict with the original.

Get

composer require gcworld/globals

Usage

use GCWorld\Globals;

# LOAD
$oGlobals = new Globals;

# DEFAULT
$oGlobals->filter(true);
# You can turn off by setting 'false'

# SET VAR
$oGlobals->GET('name', 'value');

# GET VAR
$var = $oGlobals->GET('name');

# FOR EXAMPLE :
$_GET['array'] = ['[e-mail]', 'not an email'];
$_GET['notInt'] = '01234';
$_GET['int'] = '14244';
$_GET['_int'] = '-14244';
$_GET['float'] = '142.24';
$_GET['_float'] = '+142.24';
$_GET['bool'] = 'false';
$_GET['_bool'] = true;
$_GET['quote'] = '"';

# FILTER ALL
$var = $oGlobals->GET()->filterAll();

/**
      ["array"]
            [0]=> string(17) "[e-mail]"
            [1]=> string(12) "not an email"
      ["notInt"]=> string(5) "01234"
      ["int"]=> int(14244)
      ["_int"]=> int(-14244)
      ["float"]=> float(142.24)
      ["_float"]=> float(142.24)
      ["bool"]=> bool(false)
      ["quote"]=> string(10) """
*/


# FILTER ONE (including array of elements)
$var = $oGlobals->email()->GET('array');

/**
    ["array"]
        [0]=> string(17) "[e-mail]"
        [1]=> bool(false)
*/

Supported Globals

 COOKIE
 ENV
 FILES
 GET
 POST
 REQUEST
 SERVER
 SESSION

Available Filters

->octal()->...
->int()->...
->float()->...
->bool()->...
->ip()->...
->ipv4()->...
->ipv6()->...
->callback(Callable $callback)->...
->json(bool $asArray)->...
->array()->...
->email()->...
->url()->...
->date()->...
->dateTime()->...
->mac()->...
->string()->...
->stringSpecial()->...
->stringFull()->...
->uuid()->...
->noFilter()->...

Additional Features

# You can filter a variable (or a part of global for re-inject)
$Result = $oGlobals->autoFilterManualVar($YourVar);

Notes on Filters

• The string() filter runs a trim(strip_tags()) and may not be what you need. The stringSpecial() is the filter equivalent function
• The callback filter requires a callable. Previously, this just set the filter type and didn't function properly
• The date() and dateTime filters check against strtotime($input) !== false before translating to a Y-m-d( H:i:s) format