[thelist] PHP register_globals
J Nicholas Tolson
jtnt at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 2 13:07:58 CDT 2004
In your example, you'd use the following to reference the query string:
$_GET['var1']
More info here:
http://us3.php.net/variables.predefined
Nicholas
On 6/2/04 10:19 AM, "Dave Stevens" <dave at stemfiction.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I got started in PHP by using various tutorials around the web, and
> learnt that you could do:
>
> www.somesite.com/file.php?var1=something
>
> and then set the response of the browser by doing:
>
> if ($var1) {
>
> do something to do with var1;
>
> } else {
>
> do something for the default state;
>
> }
>
>
> However I've sinced found that with register_globals set to off, this
> won't work. Its not a major problem so far as my host has it on as
> default but I've heard plenty of reasons for setting it to off.
>
> So what I'm wondering is how you make use of the query string
>
> www.somesite.com/file.php?var1=something
>
> and reference it without the help of register_globals...
>
> Googling this resulted in yet more reasons to turn off register_globals
> but nothing that told me how to work without it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
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