Doc #64058 [Csd]: Warn about register_globals

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64058&edit=1 ID: 64058 User updated by: ph57 at brisk dot org dot uk Reported by: ph57 at brisk dot org dot uk Summary: Warn about register_globals Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: n/r PHP Version: 5.3.21 Assigned To: krakjoe Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Jolly good. Thanks a lot. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-25 07:44:52] krakjoe@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. Please accept my apologies; I am new to the documentation team and simply did not realize that it would be acceptable to do as you asked ( to document what I saw as a deprecated feature ). I have since been corrected and I have updated the documentation with an appropriate warning. I hope you can find your way to reporting more bugs should you find them, I assure you they are never met with arrogance, only a willingness to help out in our spare time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-25 07:39:01] krakjoe@php.net Please accept my apologies, I am new to the doc team and did not realize we documented versions of PHP that are so old ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-25 07:37:41] krakjoe@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of krakjoe Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=329295 Log: in response to bug #64058, a warning is apparently appropriate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-24 19:20:18] ph57 at brisk dot org dot uk Actually it doesn't mention the linkage between $_SESSION keys and global variables anywhere in the SESSION documentation (although I think I did find a posting by someone somewhere in there that obliquely alerted me to the issue, but I don't think one should have to read all the postings which are often long or old). Yesterday I hadn't even heard of register_globals (why read about deprecated features?). Now I know what it is, having spent the whole of yesterday afternoon investigating why my session vars were changing under my feet. I wouldn't have made this mistake if there had been a mention of this issue in the SESSION documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-24 16:47:14] philip@php.net I thought we already mentioned this, or do somewhere else. Does someone else remember? There are plenty of PHP 5.3 (and below) users out there. We document PHP 5.1 and above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64058 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64058&edit=1