Re: [Apc-aa-coders] HELP: Problems with global variables not getting set

[Mitra <mi...@ea...>]

Any ideas?

- Mitra


At 10:11 PM +1100 4/3/03, Mitra wrote:
>Any more thoughts on this?
>
>I've fixed it on my copy by setting register_globals on, but many 
>people installing APC-AA won't have access to php.ini
>
>- Mitra
>
>At 9:54 AM +1100 26/2/03, Mitra wrote:
>>Maybe it is not so much work ....
>>
>>We have code that is all over the place
>>
>>
>>if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
>>   // Overrides GPC variables
>>   if( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS) AND is_array($HTTP_GET_VARS))
>>     for (reset($HTTP_GET_VARS); list($k, $v) =3D each($HTTP_GET_VARS); )
>>       $$k =3D Myaddslashes($v);
>>   if( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS) AND is_array($HTTP_POST_VARS))
>>     for (reset($HTTP_POST_VARS); list($k, $v) =3D each($HTTP_POST_VARS); =
)
>>       $$k =3D Myaddslashes($v);
>>   if( isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) AND is_array($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS))
>>     for (reset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS); list($k, $v) =3D each($HTTP_COOKIE_VAR=
S); )
>>       $$k =3D Myaddslashes($v);
>>}
>>
>>We could change MyAddSlashes to set the GLOBALS, variables if 
>>register_globals was off?
>>
>>Anyway - shouldn't this be an include, since we do it the same way 
>>almost everywhere?  I can see that include/config.php3 is called 
>>after this but I can't see anything in config.php3 that depends on 
>>these variable, so we could just call a script, say 
>>$GLOBALS[AA_INC_PATH]/setvariables.php3 AFTER config.php.
>>
>>I think the code would also need to handle  a few extra variables 
>>like $DOCUMENT_ROOT  becoming $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
>>
>>This could be easily done with a Tags-find-replace since we aren't 
>>changing functionality, only variable names.  The hard part is that 
>>we need to work in the pre 4.2.0 case as well, so it might be best 
>>to do it all in include/setvariables.php3 e.g.
>>
>>if somecall(register_globals)  {    /// Not sure how to test this
>>    $DOCUMENT_ROOT =3D $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
>>}
>>
>>Thoughts ....
>>
>>
>>- Mitra
>>
>>
>>At 1:29 PM +0100 25/2/03, Honza Malik wrote:
>>>Hi Mitra,
>>>
>>>    I think you upgraded PHP to version >=3D4.2.0, where PHP configuratio=
n
>>>directive register_globals is set to OFF by default. Current AA runs
>>>only with the register_globals set to ON. We should change the code of
>>>AA to use superglobals variables $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, ..., but is
>>>uis quite a lot of work. On the other hand, the new settings of PHP
>>>(register_globals=3DOFF) is safer, so we should do it.
>>>
>>>    See
>>>
>>>http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php#language.v=
ariables.superglobals
>>>
>>>    Honza
>>>
>>>On P=E1, 2003-02-21 at 14:02, Mitra wrote:
>>>>  Hi
>>>>
>>>>  Something seems to have changed on my home system, so that global
>>>>  variables aren't getting set.  I don't think its an APC change
>>>>  because a backup version stopped working as well.   I have upgraded
>>>>  the OS  (Mac OSX) recently so its possible that a config file
>>>>  changed, so I'm really looking for help to find out what changed.
>>>>
>>>>  There is NO php.ini in use.
>>>  >
>>>  > I've look on include/init_page and get_magic_quotes_gpc() is=
 returning 1
>>>  > so the piece of code that sets the variables isn't being run.
>>>  >
>>>  > If that code is NOT run, then how are the variables set from the URL
>>>  > i.e. from HTTP_GET_VARS?
>>>  >
>>>  > - Mitra
>>>  >
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