I don't know if you want a work-around or just to moan at PHP (which is a totally normal thing to do!) but one idea would be a global associative array.

The Wordpress file:

[code]
global $wplocal = array();

$wp = new WP();
$foo = foo();
$bar = bar();

/* this saves on typing array('foo' => foo, ...),
   but is overkill for just one or two globals. */

$local_vars = array('wp', 'foo', 'bar');

foreach ($local_vars as $value) {
    $wplocal[$value] = $$value;
}


function wordpressFun1() {
    global $wplocal;
    $local_vars = array('wp', 'foo', 'bar');

    foreach ($local_vars as $value) {
        $$value = $wplocal[$value];
    }


    $wp->doSomething($foo, $bar);
}

function wordpressFun2() {
    global $wplocal;
    $local_vars = array('wp', 'just_foo');

    foreach ($local_vars as $value) {
        $$value = $wplocal[$value];
    }


    $wp->doSomething($just_foo);
}
[/code]

Obviously that could be annoying to do to every script.


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