note 15798 added to ref.session

From: Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:23:03 +0000
Subject: note 15798 added to ref.session
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This is in response to netben@free.fr posting of 04-Oct-2000 09:11: Be extremely careful with this. This allows anyone to overwrite _any_ internal variables which may have been set during script initialization!!! It is far better to do something like this: $expected_vars=array("var1","var2","var3"); foreach($expected_vars as $key) if($HTTP_GET_VARS[$key]) $$key=$HTTP_GET_VARS[$key]; i.e. populate the array expected_vars with exactly what you expect first. Michael -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+15798 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+15798 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+15798

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