$_GET and static in PHP

Question

I get for example name=carl from the url in FooStatic and want to initiate the $Name with Carl so I can use it from another function. Can I do that? Or is there some other better way to do that?

class Foo {

private static $Name = "name";

public static function FooStatic(){

    if (isset($_GET["name"])){
        self::$Name = $_GET["name"];
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }       
}

I am using the name to get more info from another class

public static function getSomething() {
    if (isset($_GET[self::$Name])) {
        $name = $_GET[self::$Name];
        $ret = $someClass->Foo($name);
        return $ret;
    }
}

Semi related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11923272/use-global-variables-in-a-class/11923384#11923384 — PeeHaa, Nov 14 '12 at 12:54
You may be interested by the Symfony2 way to solve this problem. They created "Bag" containers that access elements of an array. You may be inspired by [this class](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/HeaderBag.php) for example. In your constructor, do something like `$this->parameters = $_GET;` and you'll get a beautiful way to do what you want. — Alain Tiemblo, Nov 14 '12 at 13:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '12 at 12:53

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The GET-variables are global, so you can always get them from virtually anywhere (if it is in the same span of the execution) if that's what you are asking.

answered Nov 14 '12 at 12:53

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