On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:36:23 -0500, Andre Dubuc <aajdubuc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2005 07:18 pm, Alex Gemmell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am building a login system for my website but I keep experiencing an
> > error on a specific PHP page that I have never encountered before and it
> > seems worryingly low-level! It says:
> >
> > "The remote procedure call failed."
> >
> > And that's it! Nothing else is on the page. Sometimes I get a slightly
> > different (but equally scary) error:
> >
> > "PHP has encountered a Stack overflow"
> >
> > I've googled these errors and some people have posted them but I found
> > no solution. I've searched the PHP bug database but found nothing. Has
> > anyone else encountered this and is there a solution?
> >
> > FYI:
> > Other (more simple) PHP scripts work fine (so my PHP installation seems
> > to be ok) and this error only started happening last week.
> >
> > I haven't changed this PHP/MySQL installation in months.
> >
> > I'm testing my script on a (Windows) server in my office on which this
> > error occurs. When I upload it to a second remote (Linux) test server
> > it works fine!
> >
> > Office Server: Windows 2000 Server + IIS 5.1, PHP Version 4.3.9 (Zend
> > Engine v1.3.0), MySQL 3.23.49. *CGI Version - I am considering changing
> > to ISAPI. Would this help do you think?
> >
> > Remote Server: Linux + Apache, PHP Version 4.1.2 (Zend Engine v1.1.1),
> > MySQL 3.23.39.
> >
> > Any ideas gratefully received! Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
>
> First off: register_globals=on on Windows server, register_globals=off in
> Linux, by any chance? I ran into a similar problem (w/o the 'low-level'
> messages). Are you calling https for login procedures? Had a problem with
> that too.
>
> Hth,
> Andre
>
>
Thank you Andre! That was spot on - my Windows PHP installation has
"register_globals"off. When I turned it on the error messages
disappeared. Success!
FYI: I found this in the PHP manual:
"If your script uses session_register(), it will not work in
environments where the PHP directive register_globals is disabled."
I was using session_register() in one place so perhaps this was the problem?
PHP manual also says this:
"Caution
If you are using $_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS), do not use
session_register(), session_is_registered(), and
session_unregister()."
Well, I have a few lines like these two:
session_register('email_address');
$_SESSION['email_address'] = $email_address;
If I simply delete the first line
("session_register('email_address');") everything will still work...
right?
--
Alex Gemmell
|:| agemmell@xxxxxxxxx |:|
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