On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 09:55 AM, cyberskydive wrote:
> So I wanna learn how to code properly with register_globals off, I > reead on Good idea, it's not really harder than doing it the old way and it helps you visualize where your data is coming from. I actually prefer it this way. > when I tried to edit an example session script I had from a book to use > $_POST, $_REGISTER, or even $_SESSION i got a blank page on the > reload. I > think sid is returning empty. Yes, I have not yet seen a book that uses the register_globals off style. Hopefully that will change as the shift towards register_globals off becomes more popular. > Can anyone offer me advice on this, proper coding and or proper > configuration in PHP.INI Just turn register_globals off, and make sure you're using PHP 4.1.x or greater. I don't know much about Windows so if there is something wrong with your server then somebody else will be a better help. > I'm trying to learn all this at once-lol, and learn it properly the > first > time around, especially since register globas will be deprecitated-poof. Yep, that's what I did -- almost from the beginning I've been doing it this way. Just make sure that any time you refer to data that comes from one of the superglobals arrays, you use $_*['variablename'] instead of just $variablename. So if you have a cookie with a value of "Fred" and a name of "first_name", do $_COOKIE['first_name'] when you want to use that variable -- its value is "Fred". The only one that works a bit different is $_SESSION['variablename'] -- it is the easiest way to set session variables. Just do something like // user has submitted POST data, and you have // checked it for errors in your script $_SESSION['variablename'] = $_POST['variablename']; // put POST variable in a session How easy is that! Note that doing this assignment with any other superglobal doesn't work and in most cases wouldn't make sense anyway. For instance, you can't set cookies using $_COOKIE['name'] = $name Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
