Posted by "Matt Babineau" on 10/17/66 11:34

Register globals is no longer ON I believe. That is why it happened.

To fix this:

Foreach($_POST as $key => $value) ${$key} = $value;

That will convert all of your post variables to local variables.

:)


Thanks,

Matt Babineau
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray [mailto:ray@media32.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:29 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] need for $_POST[''] changed after server upgrade
>
> Hello All,
> We just upgraded our server at work, and one client's web
> site stoped working. I didn't write the code, I just get to
> clean up someone else's mess. :) After a little
> troubleshooting, I found that forms refered back to the same
> script. so far, so good. very normal. The strange part was
> the variable names were just "$foo" not, "$_POST['foo']".
> After the upgrade, the variable "$foo" was not recognized
> when the form was processed, so of course, everything failed.
> My solution was to put if (isset($_POST["foo"]))
> {$foo=$_POST["foo"]}; at the top of the script. This seems to
> make everything work.
> My two questions are: first, is there a better way to fix
> this, and second, how did this work in the first place?
> TIA
> Ray
>
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