Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6267 Updated: parse_str fails to parse strings

On 21 Aug 2000, Bug Database wrote: > ID: 6267 > User Update by: ianm@judcom.nsw.gov.au > Status: Open > Bug Type: Misbehaving function > Description: parse_str fails to parse strings > > UPDATE > > After reading comments by several people that they couldn't reproduce the problem, I > wondered if it was a local configuration problem. > > I backed up my current php.ini and copied php.ini-optimized as the new php.ini, and I still got > the parse_str failure. I then replaced that php.ini with php.ini-dist ... and parse_str worked fine! > > NB: I have been using a modified version of php.ini-optimized as my php.ini. > > CONCLUSION (thus far) > > The php.ini-optimized that comes with PHP 4.0.x definitely causes parse_str to fail on my PCs, > but the php.ini-dist works fine. I had used php.ini-optimized because it says it is optimized for > 4.0.x and it is "recommended". > > Does this help? Where does it say that php-optimized is reccomended? We need to fix the docs. php-optimized should only be used by people who know exactly what they are doing. parse_str() will not work with register_globals turned off. -Rasmus