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[Phpwebsite-developers] php 4.1

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Ok, I have read the changes and I like them. The fact that the new
variables are global in scope automatically is very cool. But obviously, as
everyone has pointed out, taking advantage of these new tools is not
backward compatible.

My opinion is that we not take advantage of them yet unless there is a
version check with a work around. Heck, people still write us on why we
don't support php 3.x =P. If we can, add the new functionality in after
fixing the compatibility but put the version check and the proper execution
in a function in the mainfile so it will be easy for other developers to
make the change.

Since we won't be leaving 0.8.x for a little while, I don't think forcing
people to upgrade in this version would fly. When we go to 0.9.1, it will
be easier to tell people they need to upgrade and we can make it the
standard.

In the meantime, we'll try to get 4.1 here so we can test.

Anyone else?

Matt

Matthew McNaney
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Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
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[Phpwebsite-developers] php 4.1

[TheNetSnake <The...@tt...>]

I found a possible solution to the session and global variables
problem using PHP 4.1 (at least, it worked in my configuration case)

adding session_unregister, and next registering it again before
setting the rignt value to admintest and current_admin solved the
problem. (admin links no more broken)

the auth.inc.php file lokks like that after the modification:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[....]
if($pass == $this_pass)
{
         session_unregister("admintest");         //new
         session_unregister("current_admin");     //lines
         session_register("admintest");           //are
         session_register("current_admin");       //here
         $admintest = $security_hash;
         $current_admin = $temp_admin;
}
[....]
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


PS: sorry for my poor english, I speak french....

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Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] php 4.1

[Alessandro P. (T. / J578) <al...@ti...>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 14:25, Matthew McNaney wrote:
> My opinion is that we not take advantage of them yet unless there is a
> version check with a work around. Heck, people still write us on why we
> don't support php 3.x =P. If we can, add the new functionality in after
> fixing the compatibility but put the version check and the proper execution
> in a function in the mainfile so it will be easy for other developers to
> make the change.
I agree: support for new php 4.1 will come someday, but IMHO we still
need to make phpWebSite work with register_global = Off, I mean: using
$HTTP_GET_VARS / $HTTP_POST_VARS. So, any PHP 4.x will work fine with
phpWS with register_globals both on and off.
It is okay to make such a change ? If so, I could take care of this
change.

Bye,
Alessandro

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