Re: ini_set() broken?

Tom Rogers said: > Hi > If you check with phpinfo() you will see that it is getting set to 1 or > 0 but by the time your script is run it is too late for it to have any > effect. I just checked with an old PHP manual (probably 4.1.X) and register_globals can only be set in PHP_INI_PERDIR & PHP_INI_SYSTEM, ie cannot be set at run-time. So either they changed the behaviour in 4.2.X, or the latest manual is wrong. > Also ini_get('registar_globals') will not return the current > state. No, but ini_get('register_globals') will :) > I have no idea why, it looks like one of those undocumented > safety features... Tom However, in the one instance where I used it, it returned 'Off'. My guess is that it returns whatever was defined in php.ini. Thus if in php.ini you had defined register_globals = 1, then ini_get('register_globals') returns 1. It would be much better and less confusing if ini_get() returns values in a consistent notation, eg for booleans it should either return (0/1) OR (false/true). Another gotcha that I've come across is when setting register_globals (may or may not apply to other settings) in the apache conf file. This does NOT work: php_value register_globals On Whereas this does work: php_value register_globals 1 -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk