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Re: Completely stumped (still) [message #185077 is a reply to message #185068]

Tue, 25 February 2014 21:06

Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/25/2014 2:27 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> On 2/24/2014 6:53 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
>>>
>>> I inserted var_dump successively at each stage in the script to see
>>> where it changes from the (correct) array to a (incorrect) string. I
>>> narrowed it down to ONE statement, but cannot see how that could
>>> possibly change the variable. Here's the section with var_dump, then
>>> the one statement, and then the var_dump repeated exactly.
>>>
>>> var_dump($_SESSION['to']);
>>> $to=$_SESSION['to'][$ct]['email'];
>>> var_dump($_SESSION['to']);
>>>
>>> The output of the two var_dumps is:
>>>
>>> The first:
>>> array(1) { [0]=> array(3)
>>> { ["fname"]=> string(4) "Dick"
>>> ["lname"]=> string(5) "Yates"
>>> ["email"]=> string(23) "dyates(at)salemharvest(dot)org" }
>>> }
>>>
>>> The second:
>>> string(23) "dyates(at)salemharvest(dot)org"
>>>
>>> If I comment out the second line (that sets $to), the second var_dump
>>> comes out correct. Am I losing my mind?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The failing server has register_globals enabled.
>
> I'm still confused that it seems that register_globals makes the
> respective global variables *references* to the session variables. If
> that is so, register_globals is even far worse a feature than I thought.
>

That is how it works. And while it seemed like a good idea in the
beginning, as of PHP 4.2 the recommendation was not to use it any more.

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		Completely stumped By: Richard Yates on Mon, 24 February 2014 22:51
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Mon, 24 February 2014 23:53
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 25 February 2014 00:11
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Tue, 25 February 2014 00:24
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 25 February 2014 00:49
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 02:37
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 03:01
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 18:38
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 19:06
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 19:28
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 21:04
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 01:59
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Tue, 25 February 2014 03:00
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 03:04
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Tue, 25 February 2014 05:09
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Tue, 25 February 2014 05:30
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 25 February 2014 19:27
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 19:34
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 25 February 2014 21:46
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 22:30
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Tue, 25 February 2014 23:03
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 25 February 2014 23:29
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 26 February 2014 18:50
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 26 February 2014 21:20
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Wed, 26 February 2014 23:21
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Richard Yates on Tue, 25 February 2014 20:39
		Re: Completely stumped (still) By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 25 February 2014 21:06

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