tedd wrote:
> At 2:48 PM -0400 10/28/09, Robert Cummings wrote:
>> Bob McConnell wrote:
>>> From: tedd
>>>
>>>> I found the problem, which basically was that I had declared a
>>>> variable in a preceding script with the same name, namely $user_id.
>>>>
>>>> When I changed my script to $u_id, everything worked as before.
>>>> Clearly, Globals are evil.
>>>>
>>>> It's a bitch to have to work with code you can't change unless you
>>>> are willing to edit over 1500 files.
>>>
>>> Just keep in mind that register_globals is deprecated and will be going
>>> away in a future release of PHP. You might want to start thinking about
>>> a strategy to update those files before that happens.
>>>
>>> Bob McConnell
>>
>> I don't think his problem was register_globals, I think it was the
>> other problem of globals... namely variable naming collision causing
>> value clobber.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
>
>
> Rob:
>
> You were exactly right -- it was a collision.
>
> Now, if I can only find out why header("location:.."); stopped working.
>
> Sometimes old code presents a lot of problems to solve.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tedd
>
I would use headers_sent() to find out if the headers have been sent before
calling header()
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