[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17245: WordPress fails to load if wp-load.php is not called from the global scope

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#17245: WordPress fails to load if wp-load.php is not called from the global scope
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 Reporter:  dave1010      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 WordPress assumes it is being loaded in the global scope. Although
 including WordPress from inside a function is a strange (and probably
 should be an unsupported) thing to do, PHPUnit's commandline runner does
 it and there are probably other reasons someone may want to do it.

 See this [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/running-wordpress-tests-with-
 phpunit discussion] as an example.

 To fix this, wp-settings.php needs assumed globals to be specifically
 defined as globals. E.g.

 {{{
 // assumed global:
 $wp_the_query =& new WP_Query();
 // changing to implied global:
 $GLOBALS['wp_the_query'] =& new WP_Query();
 }}}

 This shouldn't affect anything else (unless I'm missing something) and it
 also makes it clearer that the variables are global.

 Might a patch get applied if I were to submit one?

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