Re: Weird bug with HTML_QuickForm

From: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:25:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Weird bug with HTML_QuickForm
Groups: php.pear.general 
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Believe it or not their are a lot of ISP's out there that run with register globals ON!!! (e.g. PANIX).... A safe thing to do is to turn the globals off anyway with an .htaccess file directive... Cheers... -------------- Original message from daneel <daneel@epseelon.org>: -------------- > OK I finally found the bug, and not a small one ! THE bug :) > The problem was that "something" was added to a group and it was not an > array of elements. I would like to thank the FAQ guys because it gave me > the hint to start with. But the thing was that the bug only occurred on > my remote server and not on localhost. So there couldn't be a mistake in > my form. And it took me another 2 hours to realize that... on my remote > server... register_globals was On !!! Bouuuuuuh ! Too bad ! Amateurs !!! > Everybody knows that it's one of the first thing to do when you setup > PHP : turn register_globals OFF lol > I know it's a matter of choice and I'm a bit excessive... but there I > would have appreciated them to CHOOSE THE SAME OPTION AS ME !!! > Nevermind, as register_globals was on, some of the variable names > refering to the arrays of elements added to some groups were... > overriden by POST variables... > I should have checked the difference between PHP configurations. > Anyway. Thank you for your help and remember : > > TURN REGISTER_GLOBALS OFF !!! (or at least check the configurations... :o) > > Bye > daneel > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >

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