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I should have known by now that Geeklog requires register_globals=on to work properly but ...
Is it possible to make GL compatible with register_globals=off?
If so how complex this is and what needs to be changed?

Thanks a lot for your answers,

Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

The FAQ covers this situation.
If you have a normal Apache, it's even easier than messing around with php.ini
It should take you about 10 seconds to create/edit the file called .htaccess to put that line there.

Hopefully, Geeklog 2 would be made globals aware (i.e. use superglobals and declare on globals).

Unfortunatelly it's not on my server so no chance to mess with php.ini anyway.

I've tried that on Apache once and it didn't work now I have no idea what server they use

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

Robin,

Back when Geeklog was first written, using registered globals was acceptable coding practice (and having register_globals=on the default). While all new code that goes into Geeklog is written to work with register_globals disabled, a lot of that old code will still not work. There is a lot of it. As we make changes (bug fixes and enhancements) to the code we try to remove the dependency on register_globals. However there is still a lot of places where Geeklog uses register_globals.

-Vinny

Thank you vinny for your answer
The thing is that I had to move one of my sites to a new location and didn't check that they had register_globals turned off (BTW it is on now).
Really looking forward to a new version which will be register_globals independent.

Thanks
Robert

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

My provider has globals turned off as well and the .htaccess method of turning them on seems to be blocked. I did find the following code on php.net which I copied into lib_custom and everything seems to work now:

// Emulate register_globals on
if (!ini_get('register_globals')) {
$superglobals = array($_SERVER, $_ENV,
$_FILES, $_COOKIE, $_POST, $_GET);
if (isset($_SESSION)) {
array_unshift($superglobals, $_SESSION);
}
foreach ($superglobals as $superglobal) {
extract($superglobal, EXTR_SKIP);
}
}