SharonQ27

Can somebody tell me why register globals keeps resetting back to off? Every time it goes off it messes my site up. Could somebody possibly turn it back on cause my site is a downloads based website and right now all the downloads are currently offline as register globals has turned it self off.

My domain is simsnoutique.net

Thanks from Sharon

H

register_globals being on is a potential security risk... It's advised you update your script to not require it.

SharonQ27

Um.. I don't actually know how to update my script for this problem. I used to have a friend that helped me with this php stuff but now I don't. It's only affecting the login script and the downloads script and I don't really know why.

Suikolove

Maybe if you ask for help in the PHP forum, somebody could help you change it to remove the need for register globals. The people here are pretty helpful, after all.

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SharonQ27

Ok. I'll ask. I have to admit that every time I've had a problem it's always been fixed pretty quick. I'm not to sure anybody will want to take on the task of messing with my amateurish php script though

H

The solution is pretty easy...

Anywhere you're expecting a query variable, use $_GET['variable'].
Anywhere you're expecting a form variable, use $_POST['variable'].
Anywhere you might be getting either, use $_REQUEST['variable'].

This also affects cookie and session variables, though oddly enough people seem to learn to use $_COOKIE and $_SESSION instead of just $variable.

SharonQ27

That totally just went over my head. I don't have a clue where in my script I replace my variable names for one these $_GET['variable'] $_POST['variable'] $_REQUEST['variable']. I was just reading up about this on php.net but that site isn't really for the php dummy like me. I could really use somebody to look at my script and show me the way. Thanks for replying though.