To help clear things up for a few: > The globals that PHP sets up have changed since since PHP 4.2.x > See: http://www.php.net/release_4_2_0.php
Note, this is only the default value for the fully configurable PHP directive register_globals. Please read: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php Also, note that global and register_globals are different topics all together. And that the track_vars directive hasn't been useful since PHP 4.0.2. It's always on now. > You can turn on register_globals in the php.ini file but it is > recommended to use the more secure $_GET['test'] type variables. Using superglobals is not secure, but it can be nice to know where your data is coming from so if you expect a cookie variable, a get variable won't take its place. Like if you have a cookie named 'foo', with register_globals one might use $foo, but if the cookie does not exist a user could pass a get variable $foo through the url ... Just a simple example :) The following post might help clear things up regarding superglobals, variable scope, and register_globals: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=102036870428992 Regards, Philip Olson > -----Original Message----- > From: Johan Ekström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 May 2002 16:39 > To: PHP Windows Discussion List; PHP General Discussion List > Subject: [PHP] Problem : track_vars stopped working. > > > Okay, mystery to me, when I installed PHP 4.2.1 on Apache 2.0.35, the > track_vars function, stopped working. > > a simple command like, example : > > file : default.php > ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ > <? > echo("$text"); > ?> > > then I type in the address in ie6, like : > http://127.0.0.1/default.php?text=this > > but it doesn't show anything. it becomes a blank page instead of echoing > out "this". > > Now, I thought track_vars was set to "Off" but in php.ini, it stood that > it always was on. So, now I'm stuck... I'm using the php4apache2.dll > module, which I suppose may be the problem, but I don't think they would > have forgotten this function in that file. > > Anyone got any idée's??? I kind of need that function to do multipages. > johan ekström [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dynamicduo.nu/ > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
