Strange Variable Problem

faisy_master

Hi,

I have a server configured against a site and everything was fine until the server crashed. I had to re-configure the server with PHP-MySQL and the site is now successfully running.

Now there is a strange problem that there is a Session in the site which is set against the UserID when the user successfully signs in.

 session_register("MM_UserID");

Now this session variable is assessed as [ $MM_UserID ] at certain points and it gives NULL at every point. Ofcourse, the variable should be assessed as "$_SESSION[MM_UserID]", but the previous developer has used it in the site as [$MM_UserID], and it actually worked fine previously.

Now either, there must be some setting in the PHP.ini file or else, can anyone of you please help me in this regard.

Either some change may be devised in PHP.ini file or I may assign the Session value to some Global Variable which can be assessed by all $MM_UserID's throughout the site.

Thanks.

Weedpacket

The setting is probably register_globals, which has now been turned off (by default since four years ago) for security and performance reasons.

The smart thing to do would of course be to fix the old code. Mixing $_SESSION['foo'] with session_register('foo'); in the same program has been known to cause problems.

faisy_master

Thanks Weed, yeah this was actually the problem ... the register_globals was off in php.ini file.

As soon as it was 'On', the Variables were checked with the value.

I would be very thankful to you if you help me in one other issue.

There is a line as

header(sprintf("Location: %s", "somepage.php"));

It is not working and does not redirect to the particular page. It moreover also gives the warning, which is

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Server\Apache2\htdocs\devServer\portal\stats\counter.inc.php:12) in C:\Server\Apache2\htdocs\devServer\portal\news\news.php

Now, can you help me in figuring it out that whether why it was previously working and not now?

Thanks and Regards.

Weedpacket

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10453971#post10453971

faisy_master

You rule !!!

Thanks.

khendar

Am I the only one who sees "fairy_master" rather than "faisy_master" ??