just curious

Anon

Hey all,

Feel free to laugh histerically at me, but I have been coding php for about 6 months now and I installed the latest php on my workstation to do some of my own beta testing and it was a pain figuring out that they had register_globals set to OFF!

Now they have commented it saying that using form variables as global can lead to security issues.

Now, RTFM's are humbly accepted, so: how the heck am I supposed to get user input parsed if I dont register_globals?

Thanks for the info,

Chris

Anon

RTFM indeed. The section covering configuration options (particularly the bit regarding register_globals) is probably a good place to start.

Anon

After reading the section on config options,(thanks Grumbler) I humbly apologize for such a stupid post.

I am going to kick my own butt now.

Chris

Anon

Well, it was startling - knowing about register_globals but not the alternative...

daarius

you dont have to have register_globals ON in order to get user input parsed. that only means that the name attributes of the form tags arent registered as vars.

so just do $GET['name'] or $POST['name']

this is good idea to have, if you also have your own var as $name;

cheers,
Daarius...