variable passed in through header

[Owen Funkhouser]

We recently upgraded PHP and variables that were once passed through the URL are no longer
recognized.

Example:

http://www.sun.com/test.php?defectID=2

Within the test.php code:

<?php
session_start() ;

$defectID = (int)$defectID;

if ( $defectID != 2 ) {
// This should not execute, but does.
echo "Error: $defectID";
exit;
}

?>

Help?

[Tom Thackrey]

Re: variable passed in through header


On 7-Oct-2003, Owen Funkhouser <funk@highwaay. net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> We recently upgraded PHP and variables that were once passed through the
> URL are no longer
> recognized.
>
> Example:
>
> http://www.sun.com/test.php?defectID=2
>
> Within the test.php code:
>
> <?php
> session_start() ;
>
> $defectID = (int)$defectID;
>
> if ( $defectID != 2 ) {
> // This should not execute, but does.
> echo "Error: $defectID";
> exit;
> }
>
> ?>
>
> Help?[/color]

The newer PHP has register_global s off by default. Either set it on or
change your references to $_GET['defectID'] or $_REQUEST['defectID'] or use
import_request_ variables()

See

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php

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