Posted by Captain Paralytic on 03/30/07 14:28

On 30 Mar, 14:14, "strawberry" <zac.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 3:12 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > >>> 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 -
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> > (it's nice to see a question of yours I can answer - I've learned a lot
> > from you :-) ).
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> > $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.
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> > 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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> > --
> > ==================
> > Remove the "x" from my email address
> > Jerry Stuckle
> > JDS Computer Training Corp.
> > jstuck...@attglobal.net
> > ==================
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> Likewise Jerry :-)
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> 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.
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> Any more thoughts?
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Honstly Strawberry you should be ashamed of yourself.
Fancy describing your problem as "some aspects of the php interface no
longer work properly."
and "but it still didn't work".

Quite obviously you still have some code that is based on some of the
globals being automagically registered.

How's about sharing precisely what things the "it"s are that are not
working. Then we might be able to help you better.

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