Re: [phpBT-dev] Session vars since recent changes

[Ben C. <php...@be...>]

I tested this both with globals on and globals off and found that both
ways worked.  Could someone else test it and see what results you get,
so we can try to isolate the problem?  Thanks!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:05:01AM +0000, John Wilkins wrote:
> All,
> 
> I updated by local dev copy of phpbt from cvs last week and subsequently
> found that I could not successfully log in - or rather that after
> logging
> in, the next page load would 'forget' I'd logged in.
> 
> After many hours, I think that I've found the root cause to be the 
> setting for register_globals in php.ini.
> 
> The default out-of-the-box RedHat 7.2 install has this set to
>  register_globals = On
> 
> The result of this appears to be that calls such as
>  $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['fred']='wilma';
> have no affect (ie no data gets written to the session file,
> typically /tmp/sess_*).
> 
> Now located, this is easily changed to
>  register_globals = Off
> and all seems to work properly.
> 
> However, my concern is that I've had to change a default setting from
> the default ini file in one of the most recent Linux distros - it's more 
> than likely that this could catch out others - particularly first time 
> installers that may just give up on phpbt.
> 
> It's hardly a real sample, but I've just checked my web hosts' PHP
> config 
> and they too have register_globals=On - so it's not just my strange
> config.
> 
> At the least, I think it would be worth adding something to the install
> script such as :
> if(ini_get("register_globals")==1){
>   echo "having register_globals = On will cause trouble";
>   /* or words to this effect! */
> }
> 
> Or, should the session code be independant of the setting of
> register_globals?
> 
> john
> 
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