ini_set("register_globals", 1);

[golden_water]

you can use the hack at the top and bottom of your scripts..

I am new to php and I have seen a lot of people speaking above phase....

so, what is it....
top and bottom??
is setting it eliminate you call of form variable $_GET['var']...???

thanks

[beatsie]

Hey there,

okay as far as i know "top" and "bottom" of scripts just means that you can set register globals to ON before your code then turn it back to OFF at the end of your code

e.g

ini_set("register_globals",1)

//Your code/script here

ini_set("register_globals",0)

And yes when register globals is ON you dont have to refer to GET and POST variables with:

$GET['$bla'] or $POST['$bla']

you can just use the variable name like so:

$bla.

Hope This Helps

[golden_water]

thanks for the response....

[philipolson]

You cannot set register_globals at runtime (with ini_set), as close as you'll get is by using .htaccess. One hack I developed (but never used in production code because there is no need to have register_globals on) is as follows:

if (!ini_get('register_globals')) {
    $types_to_register = array('GET','POST','COOKIE','SESSION','SERVER');
    foreach ($types_to_register as $type) {
        if (@count(${'HTTP_' . $type . '_VARS'}) > 0) {
            extract(${'HTTP_' . $type . '_VARS'}, EXTR_OVERWRITE);
        }
    }
}

Which of course would go on top of your code. Please take the advice of the PHP community and don't rely on such things, don't code with register_globals = on, it's too messy.

[beatsie]

here is how i declared the session variable
added values to the array and accessed them

session_register("myarray");

$myarray[] = "value1";
$myarray[] = "value2";
$myarray[] = "value3"; //And so on

then to access the values

echo $myarray[0];
echo $myarray[1];
echo $myarray[2];

now that register globals default is off

i declare the variable like so

$_SESSION['myarray'];

then add values like this

$SESSION['myarray[0]'] = "bla";
$SESSION['myarray[1]'] = "bla";
$_SESSION['myarray[2]'] = "bla";

this adds elements but i cant seem to reference the values

like this

$SESSION['myarray[0]'];
$SESSION['myarray[1]'];
$_SESSION['myarray[2]'];

what am i doing wrong , or can anyone suggest a workaround

tia.

[philipolson]

That's not how to use arrays, here are some examples:

$arr['key']['key2'] = 'foo';

print $arr['key']['key2'];

$_SESSION['myarray'][0] = 'bar';

print $_SESSION['myarray'][0];

[beatsie]

Thanks for that phil,

i just couldnt figure it out 🙂