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Re: [ProgSoc] Incubus httpd down again?
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:20:06AM +1000, jedd wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:12 am, Robert Howard wrote:
> ] I'll probably go with turning it off by default, but letting people turn
> ] it on in .htaccess - if we're running with suPHP, people can clean up
> ] after their own scripts.
>
> I'm not sure that once you disable it (/etc/php*/apache*/php.ini)
> you can enable it again at a user level. I wouldn't expect htaccess
> to have any influence with it anyway. But who knows ...
I'm pretty sure you can change it with the php_flag directive, eg.
php_flag register_globals on
php_flag short_open_tag off
etc.
> It's something that has been discontinued, or at least strongly
> advised against using, by the php community since the release of
> php5 -- so if it's causing problems, I think you should just announce
> the intent and then drop it.
*Shrugs* I'm tempted to leave it as an option - things such as, say,
osCommerce (if you really have a burning desire to write extensions for
it) require register_globals to be on.
--
Rob Howard
Computer Systems Officer
UTS Programmers' Society
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