#21575 [Com]: 4.2x to 4.3 Compatibility issue

ID: 21575 Comment by: taomyn@hotmail.com Reported By: ulysses@mail.fitan.com.tw Status: Bogus Bug Type: IIS related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: How can a PHP variable which existed when running 4.2.3 then disappears, without a mention that it was going to, when running 4.3.0 not be considered a bug? I have the same problem here. Yes, PHP has to rely on the server environment for the values to the PHP Variables, but if one version of PHP can see it and a newer one cannot, then surely the code has been modified incorrectly in the newer version. Nothing else has changed on my server - I can easily test this by having PHP in two different directories, PHP.4.2.3 and PHP.4.3.0. Naming each to PHP in turn and running the phpinfo() command produces a version with PHP_INFO, i.e. for 4.2.3 and one without, for 4.3.0 Regards, Taomyn Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-11 12:15:55] iliaa@php.net Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Thank you for your interest in PHP. php.ini settings do not have any impact on the enviroment variables. PHP will automatically gather all avaliable enviroment variables and make then avaliable to you, if an enviroment variable does not exist it simply means it is not set. In which case PHP cannot make it avaliable to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-11 06:37:21] ulysses@mail.fitan.com.tw I'm using Windows 2000 with IIS 5, and I've tried both CGI and ISAPI mode. I updated my server to PHP4.30 on 2 Jan, as you may notice in another bug-report I submitted ( http:// bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=20426 ). I did not run Windows Update this week, and I disabled auto-update service since I don't trust Microsoft. :-) Anyway, it should not be called as 'bug', and I have not trouble to modify my codes (just find/replace PATH_INFO with PHP_SELF.) I'm just curious about what is going on. Does PHP.INI would affect environment variables ? I'm using all default settings but enabling register_globals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-10 21:54:37] pollita@php.net Environment variables are supplied by the environment under which PHP is running. In most cases this means the webserver. Did you change/upgrade your webserver at the same time? Moreover, what webserver are you running and on what OS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-10 21:01:46] ulysses@mail.fitan.com.tw Environment variable "PATH_INFO" disappeared in PHP4.30, which is presented in 4.1x and 4.2x. I know that I can use PHP_SELF instead, but my old codes now having problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21575&edit=1