Re: register_globals on or off?

hi [noneofyourbusiness@none.com] wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone explain what the following passage in php.ini means: > > You should do your best to write your scripts so that they do not require > ; register_globals to be on; Using form variables as globals can easily > lead > ; to possible security problems, if the code is not very well thought of. > > If register_globals is off, does that mean you cannot access form variables > by just referring to their name? And, if that is so, how do you pass > information from forms to your action script? If you had register_globals Off *AND* track_vars On, you could change: from: $frmCompanyName to: $HTTP_GET_VARS["frmCompanyName"] or $HTTP_POST_VARS["frmCompanyName"] depending on your action method. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net