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[WLHosting]

Hello,

A part of a clients script is not passing the variables correctly. The code is used on many other servers and it is not working on this. I am sure there is a server config issue. So the problem is that if you have some code that looks similar to the following it will not go to the $action=="login" part.

PHP Code:

if($action=="login") {
echo 'bla bla';
} else {
echo <<<END
<form action="$PHP_SELF?action=login" method="post">
form contents ....
<input type="submit">
</form>
END;
} 


This is similar to the code and it works on every other server I have worked with but not this. Any thoughts.

Thanks!

[kostagr33k]

If your accessing the variable $action globally .. that could be the problem if that's disabled ... do a phpinfo so we can see please =]



Kosta

[WLHosting]

I was not thinking now and I finally remembered that I could try a $_GET['action'] instead of just $action and that works now. So I now have to go code things a little differently now. Thanks for your help.

[kostagr33k]

no problem =]

[Burhan]

The bigger issue here is that register_globals has been disabled by default on newer PHP installs (because of inherent security problems with register_globals). That's why your variable isn't being created. New arrays that are always global (autoglobals or superglobals) that are available are $_GET $_POST $_SERVER $_REQUEST $_FILES $_COOKIE and $GLOBALS which contains variables that are defined globally by you. I think that's all of them but you can verify at the manual.