RE: [PHP-DEV] Request for new feature: $HTTP_SESSION_VARS when register_globals = on From: Chris Newbill (cnewbill <email protected>)
Date: 04/05/01

+1

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Feldman [mailto:alex <email protected>]
Sent: Thursday, 05 April, 2001 1-44 pM
To: Carsten Gehling
Cc: php-dev <email protected>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Request for new feature: $HTTP_SESSION_VARS when
register_globals = on

This makes sense. The behaviour quoted below creates difficulties when
writing portable scripts (not to depend on the value of register_globals).

Rgds:

-- Alex

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Carsten Gehling wrote:

> One of the IMHO stranger behaviors in PHP is what happens to the
> $HTTP_SESSION_VARS array when changing register_globals from off to on.
>
> If register_globals is set to on, you cannot access $HTTP_SESSION_VARS any
> longer. Instead you can get the values through implicit created variables
or
> through the $GLOBALS array.
>
> Now compare this to $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS. Both of these
arrays
> are available regardless of what register_globals is set to.
>
> Shouldn't it be the same for $HTTP_SESSION_VARS ?
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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