Re: [PHP4BETA] Is autoregister of HTTP_STATE_VARS possible?

On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Automatically registering everything that's in $HTTP_STATE_VARS[] on > register_globals=off might be possible. I need more feedback from people > to see whether this is such a good idea. As far as your question, I > don't quite understand what you mean. The best way is not obvious to me. > From a readibilty standpoint using $HTTP_*_VARS instead of letting the vars be in the global scope makes sense. I assume that's why the register_globals option was added and $HTTP_*_VARS are there. We have code that uses the old method of global vars to reference data. For example developer A used a $HTTP_GET_VAR called $Loan_ID on the query string. Later developer B registered a session var called $Loan_ID. Both developers use the global var called $Loan_ID. The result was that in some circumstances $Loan_ID was stomped on and it was very hard to determine the difference between the Session Loan_ID and the GET Loan_ID. To fix this problem it makes sense to us to turn off Globals and require the the HTTP_*_VARS be used when accessing them. Now back to my question, have I got it all wrong? Should we be trying to migrate to a code base that works with register_globals=off?