note 70184 added to ref.session

In response to marou at marou dot com responding to fondman at hotmail dot com regarding local variables overwriting SESSION variables: I was encountering this same problem. On my local PHP 5 server, no problem. Remote host's server running PHP 4: major headaches. Initially, I concluded it was some kind of bug in PHP 4 and older. However, according to the devs, this is not a bug (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36366). Apparently, this is intended behavior when register_globals is set to ON. But, as noted elsewhere in the docs, register_globals cannot be turned off at runtime using ini_set(). However, you can use a local .htaccess or php.ini to override the setting. This site helped me solve the problem: http://www.nyphp.org/phundamentals/ini.php Full details of my experience with this issue can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/o6p7y ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 66.18.140.124 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/70184 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70184 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/70184 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php