Register Globals have been turned off

adrianuk29

My webhosts decided to turn Register Globals off so now some of my scripts do not work.

I have worked out that If I am posting from a form I need to get the variables on the next page like this

$name = $POST['name']
$address = $POST['address']
$town = $POST['town']
$email = $POST['email']

and so on so these can be passed to my email script.

What I wanted to know is, if there is an easier way of grabbing these variables each time, otherwise I would need to do this for every single variable that exists in my email script.

Thank you
Adrian

planetsim

Is there any reason your copying one variables to another, are you doing anything with that variable any of the variables after you copy it? If so you'd probably find it easier to use $_POST['index'] and make sure that you've done the checking then copy the variable over if its necessary.

And yes, however like I said you dont really need to copy them all the time, and depending on what is happening you could cheat and run it through a foreach loop. or if you know what each variable is in order use

list($var1, $var2, etc) = $_POST;

jonno946

you could use the extract() function,

something like

if($POST) { extract($POST); }

or you could just put the $_POST array through a foreach loop as planetsim said.

both are very messy ways of fixing your problem though.

Jonno

TheDefender

Both of which can also lead to the malicious injection of code into your variables (which is why your host turned it off in the first place).

As much as it pains you to hear this, you should rewrite your code to specifically pull the variables you are looking for directly from the $_POST array like you are asking about. I know, it sucks right now, but in the long run, you will be better off. (Gets you into the habit of better coding practices that way)