RE: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
Thanks again everyone for your assistance. I found an un-related bug in the PHP bugs database here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18648 (which was for an earlier version than 4.3.4, which I was running) and applied that band-aid patch to some of the places where this was happening, and it seemed to fix the problem. I also upgraded to php 4.3.5 and have not seen the problem since. Thanks again everyone! Regards, Geoff Varosky -Original Message- From: Ben Ramsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed! Just don't use register globals and use if ($_POST) instead of if($action=='post') so you don't have to include that ?action=post in the query string of your action. Dvdmandt wrote: Accutually, I intented ?action=post, and if($action=='post'), just forgot to add method=post.. :p -- Regards, Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/People/BenRamsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
Thank you all for your ideas so far, however, I ahve gone through all my code, and cannot seem to find the culprit. I did a var dump, and also a dump of the REQUEST, GET, and POST variables, and here is an example of what I am seeing (submitting test): string(7) testiU _REQUEST: Array ( [search] = testiU [PHPSESSID] = 3aeab8d47f4a4383104e20a98963f608 ) _GET: Array ( ) _POST: Array ( [search] = testiU and also removing just about everything, and even dropping all mysql table indexes that are referenced in the headers, and it still seems to happen... and even when going to just the search posting the code, sometimes it will come up as: string(7) test _REQUEST: Array ( [search] = test [PHPSESSID] = 3aeab8d47f4a4383104e20a98963f608 ) _GET: Array ( ) _POST: Array ( [search] = test ) again, any help is greatly appreciated! Is it possible that the sessions are being corrupted somehow by apache/php? (the session here is leftover from when I had some header files included) Regards, Geoff Varosky Senior Systems Engineer Conversent Communications Phone: 888-885-4437 ext. 248 (Mon-Wed, Fri) Phone: 508-480-4523 (Thursdays only) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key - http://gvarosky.conversent.net/gvarosky.txt -Original Message- From: Kim Steinhaug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed! My first thought is that some dynamic code on this page has an error. Typical like this : input type=var value=?=$var?' ^^ Or maby a quote is missing? Looking at your examples it looks like there are different parts of the HTML code comming into your var, which would typically be the case with broken quotes. On the other hand it looked like there was a session ID aswell in there, but mainly I would run my code through the W3 validator just to double check. You could also, just in case check that the get_magic_quotes_gpc hasnt changed. There could also be some quotes in some variables messing up your code again. Going from magic_quotes to no_magic can be annoying - I did that experience with my database application some weeks ago... Hope this is of any help. -- -- Kim Steinhaug -- There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers: those who understand them, and those who don't. -- www.steinhaug.com - www.easywebshop.no - www.webkitpro.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This problem only seems to be happening on one of the virtual hosts on this system, and I cannot seem to figure out just what it is. I have a simple form posting to search.php, with a text input field, with a name of 'search'. And since this site is an internal site, register globals are on, as we are not worried about anyone misuing any of the variables in use. In any even, this problem was noticed about a week ago, and it did not exist before. After inputting some text into the search box, in this example, 'var', sans quotes, and i hit submit... on the next page, I am just having it return just $search for testing, and, it comes back sporadically with: 'var', but most of the time, it comes back with: var^!#ndda/form or var4194092d098240928d12ed or var#c0c0c0 or varput type=text etc. etc. it seems soemthing is somehow corrupting the variables, and I cannot seem to figure out what it might be. This has been working fine until about the past week, and I cannot think of any major changes that may have happened within the past week that could have caused this... and as I mentioned above, it only seems to be this one virtual host. And ai also compared with backups of all of y included files at the beginnings and ends of each script from before this problem started happening, and I can see no major changes in any of them. And, this is happening around all php scripts on the site... I am running 4.3.4, with apache 2, FreeBSD 4.8, and the data is all stored on a vinum partition. The server has been rebooted, a fresh install of php... tried setting output buffering on and flushing it at the end of the script(s), however, they seem to get hacked up when doing that, so I stay away from that band-aid fix...I am using sessions as well, as a few scripts within the site store session variables... and also using SMBAuth to do authentication from our domain controller... I've been pulling out my hair for 4 days straight on this issue, and I am all out of ideas, any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:
Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
On Monday 05 April 2004 22:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for your ideas so far, however, I ahve gone through all my code, and cannot seem to find the culprit. I believe it is a known bug with a particular old version of PHP, try using the latest. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * -- Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general -- /* Please forgive me if, in the heat of battle, I sometimes forget which side I'm on. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 05 April 2004 22:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for your ideas so far, however, I ahve gone through all my code, and cannot seem to find the culprit. I believe it is a known bug with a particular old version of PHP, try using the latest. It may be the old bug that dealt with a specific version of PHP and Apache2, also. Either upgrading PHP or downgrading Apache to a version compatible with PHP would solve the problem. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
One problem
wrong
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
right
form action=wierd-var-test.php method=post
?action is a variable with a value of post
-Blake
DvDmanDT wrote:
Hmm.. Are there any PHP settings that only applies to that vhost? Can you
please try to run PHP as CGI few tries.. If the input is corrupt, that
_could_ be caused by the Apache2 which accutually is marked as
experimental... Basicly, this would get currupt?
(wierd-var-test.php)
?
if($action=='post')
var_dump($_REQUEST);
else
{
?
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
input type=text name=var
input type=submit
/form
?
}
?
Or are there some other details I've missed?
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Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
Is this what your are trying to do?
?php
$var = $_POST['var'];
if($var)
var_dump($_REQUEST);
else
{
?
form action=index.php method=post
input type=text name=var
input type=submit
/form
?
}
?
DvDmanDT wrote:
Hmm.. Are there any PHP settings that only applies to that vhost? Can you
please try to run PHP as CGI few tries.. If the input is corrupt, that
_could_ be caused by the Apache2 which accutually is marked as
experimental... Basicly, this would get currupt?
(wierd-var-test.php)
?
if($action=='post')
var_dump($_REQUEST);
else
{
?
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
input type=text name=var
input type=submit
/form
?
}
?
Or are there some other details I've missed?
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Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
I agree. I believe the default FORM METHOD is GET.
One problem
wrong
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
right
form action=wierd-var-test.php method=post
?action is a variable with a value of post
-Blake
DvDmanDT wrote:
Hmm.. Are there any PHP settings that only applies to that vhost? Can you
please try to run PHP as CGI few tries.. If the input is corrupt, that
_could_ be caused by the Apache2 which accutually is marked as
experimental... Basicly, this would get currupt?
(wierd-var-test.php)
?
if($action=='post')
var_dump($_REQUEST);
else
{
?
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
input type=text name=var
input type=submit
/form
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Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
Accutually, I intented ?action=post, and if($action=='post'), just forgot to
add method=post.. :p
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One problem
wrong
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
right
form action=wierd-var-test.php method=post
?action is a variable with a value of post
-Blake
DvDmanDT wrote:
Hmm.. Are there any PHP settings that only applies to that vhost? Can you
please try to run PHP as CGI few tries.. If the input is corrupt, that
_could_ be caused by the Apache2 which accutually is marked as
experimental... Basicly, this would get currupt?
(wierd-var-test.php)
?
if($action=='post')
var_dump($_REQUEST);
else
{
?
form action=wierd-var-test.php?action=post
input type=text name=var
input type=submit
/form
?
}
?
Or are there some other details I've missed?
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Re: [PHP] Re: Weird variable issue encountered... help needed!
Just don't use register globals and use if ($_POST) instead of if($action=='post') so you don't have to include that ?action=post in the query string of your action. Dvdmandt wrote: Accutually, I intented ?action=post, and if($action=='post'), just forgot to add method=post.. :p -- Regards, Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/People/BenRamsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
