passing url variables

[michaelk]

hello,
we've recently upgraded our version of php (finally), but things are always a little goofy when you have a support team taking care of software and you just using it. our older build allowed us to recieve URL variables in the query string globally.

[ ie: ?user=name&pass=word ]

now the scripts do not seem to want to register these values without some kind of special treatment such as $REQUEST['user'] or $REQUEST['pass'].

Is there a setting in the php.ini file or elsewhere that I can change to allow these variables to be automatically passed to the script ?

I'm sure this is a simple and easy answer, but when it comes to configuration, i'm never too sure.

Thanks !

// michael

[leatherback]

Hi,

It has to do with the setting REGISTER_GLOBALS, which in the newer versions is switched off by default.

It is recommended (Safety) that you leave it off, and adjust your scripts though.. Should be fairly easy for sites with not too many different pages..

J.

[michaelk]

i just learend this right before i read the reply !

thanks though.
that's just it though, we have a lot of pages and admin forms for a university laboratory website.

our previous version handled all php scripts this way, it's not a simple search and replace as all of our admin forms, input forms, template pages, and our personal search engine require the globals to be on. and i don't think we are currently worried about them being on, and rather would like a functional website ! in the long run it can be rescripted perhaps, and then turned back off.

// michael