thanks richard. In the PHP.ini its set to on but in the .htaccess file we've set it to OFF. could this still be causing the problem?? thanks again Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za [c] +27 72 441 3355 [t] +27 21 469 1052 Richard Lynch wrote: >On Thu, May 5, 2005 3:37 am, Angelo Zanetti said: > > >>this is quite weird but apparently on the one server if you user $user >>as a variable name thats what causes the problem. >>I simply renamed my variable to something else and it worked, I find it >>strange that it worked on 1 server and not the other, is it possible >>that the different apache versions are responsible for this situation?? >> >> > >This would indicate to me that you've got register_globals "ON" and that >your EGPCS settings are clobbering your $user variable with data from, say >the environment $_ENV > >I'm betting that if you do: >echo "ENV $_ENV[user]<br />\n"; >echo "GET $_GET[user]<br />\n"; >echo "POST $_POST[user]<br />\n"; >echo "SESSION $_SESSION[user]<br />\n"; >echo "COOKIE $_COOKIE[user]<br />\n"; > >in the script that was giving you trouble, you'll find that one of those >is set. > >Actually, since they could be set to the empty string, you should be >echo-in isset($_XXX['user']) in the above test. > >The correct solution, then, is to turn register_globals OFF. > > >
