setting that affects scope

Bob_Loblaw

I am taking over the management of an existing website. I have established a machine which is local to me with the same version of php (4.3.10-16) and mysql. One big difference is on the local machine, I am running apache 2.0 while on the hosted site, I am using apache.

Is there a php setting which affects the scope of variables? One of the hosted pages uses several $vars and works perfectly. On my local version, these vars are undefined.

Thanks in advance.

paulnaj

Which vars are you having problems with? Probably the globals like $HTTP_POST_VARS and the like, which have been deprecated (you would use the $_POST array instead).

Have a look in the manual for Pre-defined variables for more.

Bob_Loblaw

No actually, $HTTP_POST_VARS are still valid on both. The variables in question are all user defined variables.

I am using the Zend studio on the local setup to debug. I will investigate putting it on the hosted site in order to see what is different.

(Other input is still warmly accepted!)

Drakla

http://uk.php.net/register_globals

And there's register_globals in the php.ini file. Just search this board or google for 'php register globals' and you'll hit a stack of "don't do this" articles that are absolutely right, it was bad practice but you might be forced into it rather than rewriting a load of code.

Bob_Loblaw

Thanks. That was indeed the issue.

As this is a shared host I am surprised they left this option on. Anyway, I changed my local version to have this on and the code now works like the production system.

Thanks again.