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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Adieu register_globals
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

On 3/7/06, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Stefan Esser wrote:
>
> >
> > > That was the plan.  Checking for register_globals should return
> > > false.
> >
> > Pierre's list says it removes things like
> > get_magic_quotes_gpc() ..., which is a NONO.
>
> yeah, agreed. And we should also throw errors when people make the
> setting, as per
> http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#register-globals

What is the point of detecting something that does not exist anymore?

It is not a problem to add these checks and errors, only senseless.

What is the reason to do it? PHP6 will require most applications to be
ported, this problem will be their smallest problem and can be easily
emulated in userland:

function  get_magic_quotes_gpc() { return false; }


--Pierre