#8449 [Com]: register_globals=on and track_vars=on produce strange results for arrays

ID: 8449 Comment by: oregon at pobox dot com Reported By: omakarenko at cyberplat dot ru Status: Bogus Bug Type: Arrays related Operating System: linux PHP Version: 4.1.0RC1 New Comment: Why is this bug marked as Bogus? It's absolutely a bug and it needs to be fixed because it's breaking correctly written scripts that worked in earlier PHP versions. I'll re-submit it... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-27 00:32:06] yohgaki@php.net We should get rid register_globals feature from PHP5 :) (There is import_request_variable() for compatibility also) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-26 22:58:09] rodif_bl@php.net I looked into this... When you have register globals on it registers the $person as a global array when parsing the get request it adds [age] to the global $person array then when the post requet is parsed then it finds the global array and adds the [sname] to the same array. So this is what should happen. why are you using get and post requests... why don't you just use <input type=hidden name=person[blah] value=blah> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-21 01:27:24] sniper@php.net Reproduced also with PHP 4.1.0RC1 Here is the complete script for all the lazy developers to try with: form.php: --------- <form action="form.php?person[age]=12" method=post> <input type=text size=32 name=person[sname] </form> <br> <?php echo "HTTP_POST_VARS<br>"; print_r($HTTP_POST_VARS); echo "<p>"; echo "HTTP_GET_VARS<br>"; print_r($HTTP_GET_VARS); echo "<p>"; echo "_POST<br>"; print_r($_POST); echo "<p>"; echo "_GET<br>"; print_r($_GET) ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-19 03:01:43] sniper@php.net Oops. I had register_globals=off in my php.ini. Then this works as expected. But when it is On, not. --Jani ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-19 02:57:36] sniper@php.net This is fixed at least in PHP 4.0.6. Maybe even earlier. --Jani ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/8449 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=8449&edit=1