Re: works in 4.4.2 - breaks in 5.2.1

Jim Berkey wrote: > I'm familiar with actionscript, but pretty new to php . . .I have a guestbook script that > worked fine until my host upgraded to php 5.2.1 - can anyone tell me what part of my if statement or > variable is breaking in 5.2.1? I send the new data with Flash using xml.sendAndLoad, to the xml file > via standalone php file shown below. > tia, > jimbo aside from the fact that this script has a big fat race condition waiting to happen, and you should probably be using a database for storage, and that it seems to be possible to inject just about *anything* into the guestbook.xml file (pr0n spam anyone?) ... what exactly is going wrong? at a guess $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is not set so nothing is being written, you should use something like the following to get the data instead (the comment is optional ;-): // $xmlString is completely unvalidated/unsantized and could contain all sorts of crap! $xmlString = file_get_contents('php://input'); also STFW, there is plenty out there regarding your problem, (including stuff related specifically to flash), e.g.: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10304087 > > <?php > $file = fopen("guestbook.xml", "w+") or die("Can't open XML > file"); > $xmlString = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA; > if(!fwrite($file, $xmlString)){ > print "Error writing to XML-file"; > } > print $xmlString."\n\n"; > fclose($file); > > exit; > ?> > >