Re: Strange warning message

This post might help you...

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=104202443607420&w=2

(or these -
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&r=1&w=2&q=b&s=Your+script+po
ssibly+relies+on+a+session+side-effect ).

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Lynna Landstreet
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:53 AM
To: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PHP] Strange warning message

on 7/28/04 3:21 PM, Lynna Landstreet at lynna(at)gallery44(dot)org wrote:

> Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session
> side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the
> session extension does not consider global variables as a source of
> data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this
> functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or
> session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0

An additional comment - I was reading more about register_globals just
now, and I don't think anything in my script relies on that, at least
not as I understand it. The page this error came up on does have a
session_start() at the beginning but doesn't actually call any session
variables. It does extract the visitor's username from a previously set
cookie to see if they're logged in, but it references that as
$_COOKIE['username'] which as far as I understand is legitimate. It
doesn't use any uninitialized variables.

Any ideas?

Lynna

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