Re: How is this possible? [Solved]

tedd wrote: > At 2:48 PM -0400 10/28/09, Robert Cummings wrote: >> Bob McConnell wrote: >>> From: tedd >>> >>>> I found the problem, which basically was that I had declared a >>>> variable in a preceding script with the same name, namely $user_id. >>>> >>>> When I changed my script to $u_id, everything worked as before. >>>> Clearly, Globals are evil. >>>> >>>> It's a bitch to have to work with code you can't change unless you >>>> are willing to edit over 1500 files. >>> >>> Just keep in mind that register_globals is deprecated and will be going >>> away in a future release of PHP. You might want to start thinking about >>> a strategy to update those files before that happens. >>> >>> Bob McConnell >> >> I don't think his problem was register_globals, I think it was the >> other problem of globals... namely variable naming collision causing >> value clobber. >> >> Cheers, >> Rob. > > > Rob: > > You were exactly right -- it was a collision. > > Now, if I can only find out why header("location:.."); stopped working. > > Sometimes old code presents a lot of problems to solve. > > Thanks, > > tedd > I would use headers_sent() to find out if the headers have been sent before calling header()