Just read my on message, you also need

$GLOBAL_VARS_FIX = true

that is so you can turn it on and off depending on the php setup of the
site.

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:56, Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> Hi Joey:
> This is a fix that you can include in every script that needs it. See
> also comments below.
> 
> if($GLOBAL_VARS_FIX) {
>    if (phpversion() >= "4.2.0") {
>       extract($_POST);
>       extract($_GET);
>       extract($_SERVER);
>       extract($_ENV);
>       extract($_COOKIE);
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:26, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > Y'all,
> > 
> > I've got a sticky problem that I need to solve. I've just turned on 
> > register_globals in my PHP php.ini file, and therefore have to run my form 
> > variables through $_POST:
> > 
> > $variable = $_POST[$variable];
> > echo $variable;
> 
> if register_globals = on
> 
> you can use print( $variable );
> 
> if register_globals = off
> 
> you MUST use print( $_POST['variable'] );
> 
> 
> > The problem I'm having is that the script Im trying to refactor worked 
> > great 
> > before I turned register_globals off. The script posts an array, and I 
> > can't 
> > seem to figure out how to $_POST the array.
> > 
> > Here is the script with register_globals OFF:
> > http://joeykelly.net/materials.php
> > 
> > Here is the script with register_globals ON:
> > http://redfishnetworks.com/~jkelly/materials.php
> > Notice the huge nested array at the bottom when you click [SUBMIT]? That's 
> > my 
> > trouble.
> 
> > In both cases, changing the extension from .php to .phps shows you the 
> > source 
> > code. As you can see, above the form I've tried several attempts to access 
> > the data, all of which seem to fail.
> 
> changing extension only matters to how apache processes the file. If you
> add the extension .phps to the apache.conf then .php and .phps will
> behave exactly the same.
> 
> > My question: What am I doing wrong? I suspect that I'm having trouble with 
> > nested arrays, etc.. The thing that bothers me is that the data is 
> > available 
> > (see the array printout at the bottom?).
> > 
> > If I can't make this work, I'm going to have to resort to munging a bunch 
> > of 
> > scalars ($quantity1, $quantity2, etc.), which to me is an awful kludge that 
> > I'd rather not sign my name to.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
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