Session Warning Message

[Mike Discenza]

I'm attempting to complete a new project for myself, no money in this one at
all, just a sense of accomplishment. Part of this new thing requires that
you log in to do add, update, or delete anything. I'm having a weird issue
with the log in part that I hadn't seen before.

When I go to log in I get this warning message:

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

I understand what it's telling me, but I've dug, scrounged, and rooted
around in the page(s) that have this warning in them and can't find
anything that I would think would cause this message. Nothing is relying
on global variables.

I've done as it said, turned off the bug_compat stuff and that completely
broke the log in facility. It didn't work at all!

I'm stumped. In need of some help on this one. I've put the source for the
log in page out on my web site. If anyone can help me it would be very
much appreciated.

[url]http://barrelofmonkeys.sytes.net/loginProcess.phps[/url]


Thanks in advance.

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Mike Discenza wrote:

> I understand what it's telling me, but I've dug, scrounged, and rooted
> around in the page(s) that have this warning in them and can't find
> anything that I would think would cause this message. Nothing is
> relying on global variables.
>

register_globals is a directive in php.ini which enables you to use code
like:

session_register('ownerID');
$ownerID = $row['ID'];

To fix this, you can either enable register_globals, or simply replace the
previous two lines with the following:

$_SESSION['ownerID'] = $row['ID'];


JW

[Mike Discenza]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

> Mike Discenza wrote:

>> I understand what it's telling me, but I've dug, scrounged, and rooted
>> around in the page(s) that have this warning in them and can't find
>> anything that I would think would cause this message. Nothing is
>> relying on global variables.
>>

>
> register_globals is a directive in php.ini which enables you to use code
> like:
>
> session_register('ownerID');
> $ownerID = $row['ID'];
>
> To fix this, you can either enable register_globals, or simply replace the
> previous two lines with the following:
>
> $_SESSION['ownerID'] = $row['ID'];
>
>
> JW

Many thanks. Since I'm trying to avoid using globals, I'll take your advice
of changing how I'm sticking variables in the session.