Re: What's changed between version 4.2.2 and 4.3.4 regarding POSTing?

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* mwestern@xxxxxxxxxxx <mwestern@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I've used the simple password script in the past to password protect
> pages with a session.     http://www.phpbuddy.com/article.php?id=23
> Now that I have installed Fedora Core 2 and 3 the new version of php
> (4.3.4) doesn't like this script any more. 
>
> Any ideas why?

Yes. It's using the global arrays HTTP_POST_VARS and HTTP_SESSION_VARS
arrays, and 4.3.x has the directive register_globals set to off by
default. It's safer to leave it off. You can easily update the script by
replacing these with $_POST and $_SESSION, respectively.

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