Be careful about rushing into php 4.2. It does not have "register globals" on by default. Many (many many many) scripts out there rely on this setting, even though it is sloppy and unsafe.
If you're scripts use the variable: $firstname to access the contents from a form, you will need to change it to one of these new (since 4.1) "Superglobal" variables: $_REQUEST["firstname"], $_GET["firstname"] or $_POST["firstname"] If the customers hosted on your Raq servers aren't expecting an upgrade, you may get lots of support calls if you don't give them plenty of advance notice. On a side note, the free Phakt PHP 4 extension for Dreamweaver relies upon register globals. Dreamweaver is one of the most popular development tools around, so if you or your customers use this to write PHP code, you'll need to keep your "register globals". Another side note: the $_ variables are global by default, so if you only develop for 4.1 and higher, you will see some great benefits to using these new variables instead of the "registered global" variables. For more info, cf: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php And for Phakt: http://www.interakt.ro/phakt/ Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
