Posted by Geoff Berrow on 01/01/07 11:54

Message-ID: <PcednbE3mYMMbQXYnZ2dnUVZ_tunnZ2d@adelphia.com> from Mr.
Newt contained the following:

>I'm new to PHP and found a script on about.com that is supposed to make an
>address book. Doesn't work (for me) though. First thing I noticed is that
>a variable ($mode) is not declared. When I do declare it, the script still
>doesn't work properly.

Older versions of PHP used to register globals automatically This means
that if you wrote a URL like this
www.example.com?name=Fred&email=fred@example.com

Then the variables $name and $email would be created automatically with
values 'Fred' and 'fred@example.com' respectively.

This poses security risks and so modern versions of PHP have register
globals turned off.

To save you rewriting your script, add the following right after your
database connection string. Note: this is NOT good practice but simply
a way of getting you going.

foreach($_GET as $key=>$value){
$$key=$value;
}

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