Variable Passing Failure

Anon

Hello,
I just clean installed OS X.1.6, MySQL 3.23.51, and PHP 4.2.1. since reinstalling, I'm unable to pass simple html variables within a form page to another page via php. Anyone else having these problems? The sites I've created have worked for almost 8 months till now. Only difference is I'm now using PHP 4.2.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

gcohen

Did you check your global variables?

What version of PHP were you running before?

Anon

Good morning, sorry for the number mistyping. It OS X.1.5. I was using PHP 4.2.1 prior. Apple just recently updated a major security issue in Apache and now I'm running 1.3.26 instead of 1.3.22. I was using PHP 4.2.1 with MySQL 3.23.51 and Apache 1.3.22 prior to the security update and all was working. After sleeping and thinking about this, I'm inclined to say that the security update that updated Apache to 1.3.26 is the culprit. I'm going to step backwards this morning and try to install PHP 4.1.2 back onto my OS X system and see if PHP starts working again. PHP is functioning in its current state, just not passing variables as it once did. If you can't pass variables, your databases are useless if you require a login and pwd. If going backwards to PHP 4.1.2 works, I'll respond back here. If it fails, I'm going to upgrade back to PHP 4.2.1 and then step backwards with Apache if possible to 1.3.22 and try again. If this works, will respond as well. I'm no Unix guru, so I'm swimming in uncharted territory. But with that said, I'm not building the installs, but using the packages that others have done..., I don't have no working history in performing builds or truly understand how they work. But can perform them if the steps are wrtten up for me. Will be back later today with a reply. 🙂

Anon

Hello again, you made me think when you stated the question on Global Variables. I'm new to all of this, so bare with me. I ran the localhost/test.php utility. Under php core settings the register_globals is off for both the local and master values. Is this where the problem lies? I don't have the knowledge yet to know all of these settings. If this is the problem, how can I change this setting? Thanks in advance. 🙂

Anon

Hello again,
Found my problem. It is with the register_global setting for PHP. Apple's security update for Apache wasn't the issue. I found a website that explains what has transpired since PHP 4.1.0 in respect to security issues. There are some new implementations to how you acquire html variables when passing them to pages. The url is below. For us newbies like myself, spread the word. I'm not sure how to implement all of the changes yet, but have begun the journey. Thanks in advance. 🙂
http://www.php.net/release_4_1_0.php