I dunno about 10 years ago, but for a long time now, you could just use a class to avoid globals and still keep some handy variables around. It's slightly pain

I dunno about 10 years ago, but for a long time now, you could just use a class to avoid globals and still keep some handy variables around. It's slightly painful (I came from Python, and I still end up typing $objectname.methodname() and then going back and putting in '->'), but not nearly so much as I used to think before I had to work with PHP every day. :)