Dear Jim Could you please explain why it is a bad idea - is it something to do with people passing malicious strings? What are the alternatives?
Tseung -----Original Message----- From: Jim Thome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 22:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-INST] Re: not reading variables With PHP 4.2.0, the register_global directive is off by default. Please read the section on external variables -> http://www.php.net/release_4_2_0.php In general, automatically creating form fields into variables is a bad idea, and PHP 4.2 does not do this by default. --Jim >>> "Graham Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/01/02 07:32AM >>> "Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Im running php 4.0.2 on winxp pro and the latest apache (1.3.x) and have > followed all of the installation instructions on php.net, and the only > problem i have encountered so far is the my variables arnt reading from the > url > > ie : /?page=contact wont go to the contact page, it will only refresh the > current page. > > any help would be appreciated (and its not my code, other peopel have tested > on their machines, and i have uploaded to a temp host and it works fine) > > thankyou > > Hi Geoff, If that 4.0.2 or 4.2.0? I've just installed version 4.2.0 and my previously working php3 application won't send variables either, now that it's running under 4.2.0. So, if I ask for www.nextpage.com?name=fred an empty www.nextpage.com comes up indicating that the ?name=fred portion is not being sent/read somewhere. I was glad to see your post as I thought that I was going nuts (er .. make that even more nuts)! However, and here's the really scary part, our office intranet raq3, the same beast as our online server, works OK with the same code and php 4.2.0 sending/receiving the variables without fault. Very strange and very annoying. kind regards, Graham Nichols. -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
