NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans Zaunere]

Jeff Knight wrote:

> On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:30  AM, Chris Snyder wrote:
> 
>> Waitaminit!
>>
>> What if the version of PHP on the new server didn't support $_REQUEST? 
>> And had register_globals turned on?
>> I think you might get those results, then, eh?
>>
> 
> Since Hans is the administrator of the server, I highly doubt that that 
> is the case.

$_REQUEST is available, but register_globals is on :(

*duck*

It has to be on to support most third-parts apps.

> On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:27  AM, Chris Snyder wrote:
> 
>> If that's an "outside world" setup, I think I'm happy to stay in my 
>> own little self-contained niche where I can declare an array implicitly.
>> As far as I can tell, your original code would work on my servers.
> 
> 
> Events will always conspire to ensure that you will eventually come to 
> regret not maintaining portability. Machines get fried, ISP's go out of 
> business, somebody somewhere spills a drink and BAM! you've got to do 
> the little dance.

It seems register_globals still haunts us.  I think it's safe to say that register_globals was a *bad idea*.

H