Posted by strawberry on 03/30/07 13:14

On Mar 30, 3:12 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> strawberry wrote:
> > On Mar 29, 6:44 pm, "strawberry" <zac.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mar 29, 5:01 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
>
> >>> strawberry wrote:
> >>>> I recently moved a mysql database and its associated php scripts from
> >>>> one machine to another.
> >>>> Now, however, although no errors are displayed, some aspects of the
> >>>> php interface no longer work properly.
> >>>> I suspect the problem is connected with my use of $PHP_SELF within
> >>>> some of the pages.
> >>>> I replaced "$PHP_SELF" with "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" which (I think) is
> >>>> more widely supported but the problem still persists. Is there some
> >>>> aspect of my php configuration that I should look at with respect to
> >>>> this kind of problem?
> >>> If you are using CGI, then $_SERVER[] won't work, if you use ISS you may note
> >>> have full functionality in $_SERVER[].
> >>> As you don't tell anything about the web server, we can't be sure on what goes
> >>> wrong.
> >>> --
> >>> //Aho
> >> It's just a recent xampp installation on a windows xp machine - so an
> >> apache web server.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> (it's nice to see a question of yours I can answer - I've learned a lot
> from you :-) ).
>
> $PHP_SELF only works if you have register_globals enabled in your
> php.ini (a VERY BAD idea). You should be using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
> instead.
>
> From your later posting it seems $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is working. So I
> suspect your old server had register_globals enabled but your new one
> doesn't.
>
> --
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> Jerry Stuckle
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Likewise Jerry :-)

OK, I've updated all the relevant scripts (I think), replacing
$PHP_SELF with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] - but it still didn't work :-(
So, then I did a bad thing. I switched on register_globals. Now it
works, but obviously we're shortly going to become the plaything of
every mundane-data-obsessed evil geek on the planet.

Any more thoughts?

Thanks

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