Register Global D-day

[thoand]

ok the day has come, I have to move my web application to another server and this server has register_globals turned off,
my app is of course developed using register_globals on.
The new server provider will not change its confiuration.
o I've been waiting for this moment to happen 🙁
Anyone here experienced with this problem, any tips articles that could ease the operation?

thanks in advance,
Thomas A.

[bubblenut]

It might be quite an interesting project to write a little script which reads through all your pages andnthen it finds a link with variables in the url it locates that files and replaces all references to that variable in that file with $_GET['varname'] and the same for forms and POST/GET.

Now to avoid lots of debuging you're going to have to do some pretty funky stuff like checking if the variable is in a string for one, and also checking if the variable is in a function and if so, if the variable has been made global before the point of it being used in the function.

Note: If you're only dealling with a small app it may be easier and quicker to do this by hand, however you'll miss out on all the fun :p

Goo luck,
and don't forget to call if you get lost 🙂
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[thoand]

Yes it would,
strange that this has not yet been made(have googled around for something like that)

But I guess that it would be difficult if not impossible for the script to check if the found variable is a POST, GET, COOKIE variable and so on.

Thomas

[bubblenut]

You'd have to do it by references. for GET and POST (where did the var come from when you followed it here), and difficulties would arise in situations where a variable in a file may have come from GET or POST. Also, I think cookies will have to be done manually.
HTH
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