Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/features connection-handling.xml cookies.xml file-upload.xml http-auth.xml remote-files.xml
| From: | Philip Olson | Date: | Thu, 20 May 2004 22:51:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/features connection-handling.xml cookies.xml file-upload.xml http-auth.xml remote-files.xml | ||
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> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
> input window. Once the user has filled in a username and a password,
> the URL containing the PHP script will be called again with the
> <link linkend="reserved.variables">predefined variables</link>
> - <varname>PHP_AUTH_USER</varname>, <varname>PHP_AUTH_PW</varname>,
> - and <varname>AUTH_TYPE</varname> set to the user name, password and
> + <varname>$PHP_AUTH_USER</varname>, <varname>$PHP_AUTH_PW</varname>,
>
> + and <varname>$AUTH_TYPE</varname> set to the user name, password and
> authentication type respectively. These predefined variables are found
> in the <link linkend="reserved.variables.server">$_SERVER</link> and
> <varname>$HTTP_SERVER_VARS</varname> arrays. Only "Basic"
> authentication
> @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@
> </note>
>
> <para>
> - Instead of simply printing out <varname>PHP_AUTH_USER</varname>
> - and <varname>PHP_AUTH_PW</varname>, as done in the above example,
> + Instead of simply printing out <varname>$PHP_AUTH_USER</varname>
> + and <varname>$PHP_AUTH_PW</varname>, as done in the above example,
> you may want to check the username and password for validity.
> Perhaps by sending a query to a database, or by looking up the
> user in a dbm file.
Leaving the $ off here is intentional, don't you think promoting
register_globals = on in the manual is a bad thing? It mentions
$_SERVER so there shouldn't be a problem.
Regards,
Philip