PHP: regsiter_globals value

[Bob]

Is there a way to locally change the value of register_globals in your PHP code at runtime? For example, if the webhost has regsiter_globals set to off, but I want it on for my script, how do I set that in the code?

Is it in one of the SuperGlobals? I cannot find it nor can I find how to do this.

Thanks in advance from a PHP rookie.

-Bob

 

[samscripts]

You can't change it at runtime, but you might be able to set it on a per-directory basis with a .htaccess file.

I think you'd put something like:

php_value register_globals 1

in your .htaccess file

Read the comments at www.php.net/ini_set for more info,

An alternative is to use the extract() function on the $_REQUEST variable - eg. extract($_REQUEST). It might do what you need.

Hope this helps,

Sam

 

[Bob]

Thanks Sam. Guess I should probably go back and do it correctly (i.e. $_POST).

-Bob

 

[.com.net.org]

It's best practice to use $_POST or $_GET instead of just $variable.