Re: [Phplib-users] App does not work any more ! Help needed

[Justin S. <ju...@ia...>]

sounds like a problem with register_globals.  By default the php.ini
configuration directive register_globals is turned off as of 4.2.0.  It
used to be on by default, which is why you could POST or GET variables
to a php script and refer to them as $username or $password.  Now you
are supposed to use the superglobals, and refer to the POST'ed variables
as _$POST['username'] and _$POST['password'] .  This is much safer,
which is why the change was made, but you can always just set
register_globals to off in your php.ini file if you want the old
behaviour back.

all about superglobals:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php#language.variables.superglobals

read more here about security in php:
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/art-oertli.php


Justin Simpson

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 07:58, Jose L. Marcos wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> may be it's a faq, but here it goes...
> 
> I've been using quite happily an intranet app. based on PHPLib 7.2c / 
> Apache 1.3.14 / PHP 4.06 / Netscape 4.77 browser.
> 
> As I've upgraded the Linux Box, I've also tried to upgrade the softs on 
> this box... By idea, this was... ;-(
> 
> I've moved to PHP 4.2.2, Apache 1.3.26, Mozilla 0.99.8 and PHPLib 
> 7.4pre1. I've made the modifications in my prepend.php3 / local.inc and 
> crLoginForm.ihtml (well I use the auth_md5 class) but it doesn't work 
> anymore :
> 
> - I get my usual login form, but entering user/password just gives me a 
> new blank login form.
> 
> Looking in the mysqld.log file, the only thing I see is that the query 
> made against auth_user table is looking for a username = ''... This make 
> me think that the values I enter in the login form are not correctly 
> passed to auth_validatelogin method.
> 
> But that's the only thing I've found !
> 
> Any help really apreciated,
> 
> -- 
> 	Jose Luis
> 
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