PHP4 on Win2k with IIS 5.0

[Anon]

Hello,
I'm trying to move from Linux/Apache/PHP4 to Win2000/IIS/PHP4 machine. I have a big problem though and cannot figure it out no matter how hard I
try. I had my PHP scripts on Apache server. All the scripts worked perfectly. Now after moving them over to the Win2000 machine on IIS there are
some variables that don't work quite the same way.
PHP script:
if ($name)
echo("$name");
else
echo("No name");

If I did this on the Linux machine and I had not declared what $name was equal to in a string it would process it as $name=false and print out "No
name".
Now on Win2000 machine PHP prints out a message like "Variable $name not found"

Do you know what the difference might be? Are there some environment variables somewhere in the php.ini file on Win2000 that should set? Do you
have these problems if you set this script up like this on your same server? If not, then it has to be something I screwed up. I just don't know if it is
Apache->IIS, Linux->Win2000, or PHP variables.

Any help you can give on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Anon]

I loaded PHP4 on Win95 and noticed none of the behavior that you mention.

The only real problem I had was getting the windows apache to actually execute the right CGI for .php - but once that was done I've not seen what you describe.

Hope this helps!

-Ben

[Anon]

Hi,

I had a similar problem with Win2k and PHP4

Try to check if this variable is set

Example:

//check if variable exists
$name = isset($name) ? $name: "";

if ($name)
print($name);
else
print("No Name");

For me it solved the problem
Hope it helps

[trooper]

Another Posibility could be that your error level reporting is set to display all errors. I had this when setting up on win 98 and found that i had all errors to be displayed.

change it to the following

error_reporting=E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR

that way you won't get this error again.

HTH
Gary Mailer

[jbutler]

I know this is an old thread, but I am now encountering a similar problem, and noe of the responses answer your question.

My problem is:

1) Set a session variable:
$SESSION["name"]="James";
2) Read the variable:
echo $SESSION["name"];

...so far, so good...

3) Test the variable:
if ($_SESSION["name"]==="James")
{ echo "Hi James."; }
else
{ echo "You're not James."; }

Earlier versions of Windows:
Hi James.

IE5.5 on a Windows 2k Server Pro machine:
You're not James.

I also noticed that it sometimes reads the session variables correctly, but only if there is no attempt to check and establish another session during the original session (whew).

For example, if someone logs into our site using my custom login mechanism, then they go to the Fud Forum discussion groups, they are correctly logged in to the forum by my modificatioins to the Fud scripts, and the Fud session IS established with the same session_id() as the user had when they logged into the site. However the original session data is lost, and only the Fud session remains. My custom logout mechanism does not affect the Fud session on Win2k Server Pro...but it works fine on Win95/98/Me/XP.

Hmmm... This is definitely a security issue with Win2k...but where to start? I'll bet it's a bug in Microsoft's programming as they attempt to be extra-"secure" (ahem).

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...