Tutorials for Php 4.2.2

NeoMaul

Hi I'm just getting started with php and I'm finding it really hard to learn using online tutorials because it seems nearly all of them have been written for an earlier version of php where Global Registers had been turned on. And this isn't the case with 4.2.2.

So I was wondering if anyone knows where there are some tutorials made for php 4.2.2 that will actually work with global registers off? Or the name of a book? or something, anything really?

Its really hard to learn php when none of the tutorials work 🙁

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂

NeoMaul

tha_mink

Why don't you open you php.ini file and turn the register_globals back on. Then when you have a better grasp of the language, you can turn them back off.

NeoMaul

I sorta have a basic grasp of php.

But I am trying to learn how to build scripts such as content management systems, password scripts ect...

And all the tutorials for such scripts seem to require register_globals on. Plus, the place were I will host these scripts has it turned off, and I can't change that.

It just makes it very hard learning to make these scripts when the tutorials don't work.

tha_mink

Well basically this is it...

If you send variables through a get request (like at the end of a url) then you can refer to the variable as

$_GET['variablename'];

And if its a post request you can refer to it as...

$_POST['variablename'];

That should solve most of your initial problems.

you can also use the ever popular ...

ini_set("register_globals", 1);

At the top of your script which will make the script run with register_globals on.

NeoMaul

wow that helps so much! 🙂

thankyou, I'm going to try these out now. I'd still like to know if anyone else knows of any tutorials around the place that work with global registers off. But in the meantime I will use these work arounds.

thanks tha_mink 🙂

tha_mink

forget the ini_set line...it doesn't work

NeoMaul

Why doesn't it work?

Damn 🙁 that was the one I was counting on. Is there anyway at all to turn register_globals on from inside a script?