Re: [phplib-users] PHP 5.2 and PHPlib

[Layne W. <la...@dr...>]

>Hi all,
>
>whoever might be out there...
>
>I just downloaded Richard Archer's version 7.4a from the 
>internet. Then remembering that I would find phplib's source 
>also on SourceForge...
>
>Anyway, having checked its bugtracker I verified that phplib is 
>full of HTTP_POST_VARS and similar things. That's just 
>frightening now that I wanted to port my application to PHP5 
>where these VARs don't exist anymore.


Marko,

I don't know about Richard's release - AFAIK the best, most 
up-to-date is using the php-lib-stable repository branch. In 
January 2007, I committed changes that only used the HTTP_*_VARS 
form when the superglobals were not present - you might want to 
double-check the source code to see if this is the case. E.g. 
session.inc, lines 92-98:
     if (!isset($_POST)) {
       global $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS, $HTTP_GET_VARS, 
$HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
       $_COOKIE = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS;
       $_POST   = $HTTP_POST_VARS;
       $_GET    = $HTTP_GET_VARS;
       $_SERVER = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
     }

This pattern allowed for backwards compatibility (pre-4.1) and 
allows you to run without the long vars arrays support.

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Layne Weathers