They did not break backwords compatiblity, because
$HTTP_*_VARS works on all the new versions of PHP so far, it's just not
Super Global...
Eric
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From: "arti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: [PHP] Environment Variables & Functions Incompatible???
> I am running code on different versions of PHP, specifically 4.0.6 and
> 4.1.2. For some reason, you have to use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_HOST"])
on
> 4.0.6 and $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] on 4.1.2. I'm not sure who thought that
> breaking backward compatibility was a good idea, but let's ignore that for
> the moment. In this situation, the obvious thing to do here would be to
> make a common function to return the hostname. But, this does not work as
> illustrated below:
>
> ----------------- this is the main PHP script
> <?php
> //main.php
> include ("crap.php");
>
> function thisalsonowork()
> {
> print "Third one: (".isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_HOST"]).")";
> }
>
> thisnowork();
> print "Second one: (".isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_HOST"]).")";
> thisalsonowork();
> ?>
>
> --------------- this is the include/require script
> <?php
> //crap.php
> function thisnowork()
> {
> print "First one: (".isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_HOST"]).")";
> }
> ?>
>
> ----------- Here is the output
>
> First one: ()Second one: (1)Third one: ()
>
>
>
>
> Besides the fact that the different versions of PHP provide different
> environment variables for determining the host, the isset() on the env
> variable works differently inside a function. What is going on here?
>
> Am I just missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Brian
>
>
>
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