$_Post['add'] want old way back. What the heck is this

[juschillinnow]

Ok Now I see what everyone is telling me.

So how do I get rid of it?

If I have the followin:

if($add = "yes")
{
echo "hi";
}
else
{
print("<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?add=yes\">Add</a>");
}

I don't want to have to put:

if($_POST['add'] == "yes")

how do i go back to the old way of:
if($add == "yes")
{
do something
}

[jmcneese]

http://php.nederland.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php

[hand]

eiter you turn register_globals to on

or insert these tricky code at the beginnong of you script.

$order = getenv('variables_order');
$name = array (
  'E' => '_ENV',
  'G' => '_GET',
  'P' => '_POST',
  'C' => '_COOKIE',
  'S' => '_SERVER'
);
for ($i=0; $i<strlen($order); $i++)
{
  $nn = $name[substr($order,$i,1)];
  foreach ($$nn as $k=>$v)
    $$k = $v;
}

[hand]

or this

if (!empty($_GET))                   { extract($_GET); }
    else if (!empty($HTTP_GET_VARS))     { extract($HTTP_GET_VARS); }

if (!empty($_POST))                  { extract($_POST); }
else if (!empty($HTTP_POST_VARS))    { extract($HTTP_POST_VARS); }

if (!empty($_COOKIE))                { extract($_COOKIE); }
else if (!empty($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS))  { extract($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS); }

if (!empty($_ENV))                   { extract($_ENV); }
else if (!empty($HTTP_ENV_VARS))     { extract($HTTP_ENV_VARS); }

if (!empty($_SERVER))                { extract($_SERVER); }
else if (!empty($HTTP_SERVER_VARS))  { extract($HTTP_SERVER_VARS); }

if (!empty($_SESSION))               { extract($_SESSION); }
else if (!empty($HTTP_SESSION_VARS)) { extract($HTTP_SESSION_VARS); }

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
    while (list($name, $value) = each($_FILES)) {
        $$name = $value['tmp_name'];
    }
} else if (!empty($HTTP_POST_FILES)) {
    while (list($name, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_FILES)) {
        $$name = $value['tmp_name'];
    }
} // end if

provider don't like these hacks 😃

[Weedpacket]

Well all very pretty, but they kinda make a mockery of the reason why register_globals was turned off in the first place: security, so's you know where your variables are getting their values from.

Why not just put $add=$_POST['add'] at the start of the script?

[hand]

I know this, but juschillinnow asked for a hack.