PhP QUERY_STRING not being carried over ??

Nickalf · 06-05-2009, 04:21 AM

Hi Scripters,

I just installed a newer Ubuntu Distro and my dataBase readouts stopped working.

I tried a simple test URL/TestForDb.php?dBase=RENJ&Name=Test without success
and also tried the same as a FORM with both GET and POST

Any ideas why php would stop accepting data sent to it ?

Code:

<HTML><head><TITLE>Test Access</TITLE></head>
<Body>
<h1>Testing</h1>

<?php
print "dBase=[$dBase] Name=[$Name]\n";
?>

</Body></html>

All I get is:
Testing
dBase=[] Name=[]

Thanks,
Nickalf. . .

Guttorm · 06-05-2009, 07:59 AM

Hi

They changed the default settings of "register_globals" in newer versions of PHP. It's usually safer to have it off, but lots of old scripts stop working.

Edit the file: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change
register_globals = Off
to
register_globals = On

Then restart Apache. When register_globals is off, you find the posted values in _GET or _POST, or you can use _REQUEST which is a merge of the two.

Nickalf · 06-08-2009, 04:48 PM

That was it - thanks much. . .

Nick. . .

Wim Sturkenboom · 06-09-2009, 04:15 AM

If you don't have to update a few thousand source files, consider using e.g. $_GET['dBase']

Su-Shee · 06-09-2009, 06:05 AM

Wasn't register_globals one of the security issues and wouldn't it be much more useful NOT to set them on?

With a short script, it really doesn't matter wether or not you've got a few thousand files. (And usally just a handful handles requests directly anyway depending on your architecture...)