Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/18/05 22:15

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:53:08 -0400, "Bruce A. Julseth"
<bruceajNoSpam@attglobal.net> wrote:

>I have just inherited someone elses PHP code and there is something strange
>in it, at least to me. I'm wondering if I inherited a source code bug or is
>it a PHP feature that I don't know about. This code is in "index.htm" and
>the first few lines of the file look like:
>
><?
>if($parm) {
> more code
>}
>?>
>
>Now, the error I am getting is that "$parm" is not defined. I would expect
>that. Or is there some "hidden" way $parm can be defined and I just haven't
>found the code that does it, or don't how to do it.

Search for "register_globals", then correct the script to use $_GET or $_POST
and never think about register_globals being on again :-)
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