On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, John Coggeshall wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why session_register() and $_SESSION
shouldn't be used togeather? It seems to me the session_register()
function(s) should just be working with $_SESSION anyway... Are they
doing something different? Is this desired
Where did you find that recommendation?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php
Read the note :) I thought it was kind of strange myself... If this is
changed in 4.3 I will update the docs to reflect this, but I wanted to
see what everyone had to say about it first.
John
- Original Message -
From: Sascha Schumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrey Hristov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Sessions, session_register()
Isn't that an error that 4.2.3 throws when session_register() is used
php_error(E_WARNING, Your script possibly relies on a
session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be
advised that the session extension does not consider global
variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is
enabled. You can disable this functionality and this
Isn't that an error that 4.2.3 throws when session_register() is used as
well as
registering directly in $_SESSION?
So the message is not easily comprehensible, I suppose.
There is no problem when you have register_globals enabled
and you mix session_register and use of
The problem stems from the fact that some users have been
(ab)using session_register when register_globals is off.
session_register is only supposed to be used for the
register_globals=on case.
Those functions need to be updated in the manual then to reflect this
change. If I say
