news.comcast.giganews.com wrote:
I am an experienced web developer who is just getting into php. I have had
a php project fall into my lap and wanted a little advice. Here is the
scoop:
A client moved their site from a server (unknown details) to a hosting
facility (php 4.3.2). Now none of the scripts work. I have guessed that
they are coming from an earlier version of apache/php. Anyway it appears
that whoever created the site in the first place did not believe in scoping
variables. Now any variable that is not properly scoped will not be read by
the server. I know I can simply scope all of the variables, but I was
hoping there may be an easier way. Also, how bad is the _REQUEST scope I
read that "it could not be trusted", however the previous developer created
the app in such a way that several places a variable could be _GET or _POST.
I apologize for the rambling and possible incoherency of this message, I am
a bit tired.
Matthew
PS. How do you scope queries?
You're thinking about this in the wrong way, it seems. The server
probably has register_globals Off, where previously he was programming
with it being On. or vise-versa. They should be Off, and should be left
off, but programming with them off needs some adjusting. Variables such
as post and get data are now 'superglobals', and must use the
appropriate arrays; $_GET[], and $_POST[]. There are things like
extract(), but using them is not advised. as per your question about
"scope queries", be more concrete :)
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