Re: session bug or feature

Yeah I figured as much. That sucks that they would both reference the same location in memory even with globals on. Thanks alot for your help, ill figure out a hack around the hack. Christian Calloway "Kirk Johnson" <kjohnson@zootweb.com> wrote in message news:B11731D518B5D61183C700A0C98BE0D9025872BC@chef... > Under 4.3.2, and register_globals on, $foo and $_SESSION["foo"] both contain > a reference that points to the same memory location. So, assigning to either > one effectively causes the same assignment in the other. > > If you can't turn register_globals off, consider making a copy of $_SESSION > at the top of the script, then use that copy at the end of the script to > restore any session values you need. You could also rename the global > variables, e.g., "$foo" -> "$g_foo". > > I don't see an easy way out if you can't turn off register_globals, you are > going to have to do some work. > > Kirk > > > > register_global is currently on. The problem is, I am hacking > > into someone > > else's (awful awful) code, and if I turned off > > register_globals, the whole > > application would go kaput. I am not even using the old > > session_x functions, > > just the new associative session array $_SESSION. > > > > > > > > "Curt Zirzow" <curt@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote in message > > news:20030807171325.GZ21938@bagend.shire... > > > * Thus wrote Christian Calloway (callowaylc@yahoo.com): > > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > > > > > I am running Apache 2.047 with PHP (as module) 4.3.2. I ran into > > something > > > > interesting and I wanted to know if it was a bug, or > > actually supposed > > to be > > > > that way. Given the following lines of code: > > > > > > > > <?php > > > > > > > > session_start(); > > > > > > > > // lets say this equals "bar" and it was set on a previous page > > > > $_SESSION["foo"]; > > > > > > > > $foo = "rab"; > > > > > > > > > > > > echo $_SESSION["foo"]; > > > > > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem is, when I set the global variable > > $foo="rab", when I echo > > the > > > > session variable $_SESSION["foo"], it outputs "rab" > > instead of "bar"?!