You just referance the global variable cause in that function after you declare a global into a local it's just considered that- at least to my knowledge
I'm fairly certain this works. I think I tried it at some point.
It will be treated local assuming you don't try to use it outside the function in which it was declared.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.