Find declaration of a global variable in PHP

Question

Is there a quick and concise way of finding the declaration of a global variable in PHP?

If we are dealing with a large codebase where the global variable may be r

Answer 1

Are you a Unix-based OS?

I usually do something like grep -rn 'global $myvar' .

in the top-level directory. This does a recursive search of files in the current directory for the declaration.

Or, if you want to get fancy you can search for only PHP files:

grep -rn --include '*.php' 'global $myvar' .