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script relies on a side effect which existed until php 4.2.3?
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ok laugh at me if you will, call my code sloppy or retarded or not very secure (I'm self-taught and think I do pretty good for where I'm at) but I'm pretty proud of myself for having figured this out.
I've been trying to validate a form for the past almost 15 hours now, in strictly php because javascript is so immense that it seems every last keyword is a word you can find in the english dictionary, and ajax builds off js. So I found a way to validate a form without any data loss on user submission if a field is incorrectly filled out / neglected.
It works so beautifully it makes me wanna cry. It only took 27 variables to do, which I know I could probably put them in arrays, but hey, I've been at this 15 hours straight and I'm not gonna clean it up right now lol. I also know there are ways to validate email addresses far better than checking for an empty string - I will get on that very soon - for now I just wanted the validation part to work correctly in all fields I needed it to check
The only problem I have with this, is I get a warning message which I cannot figure out where it's coming from - since line 0 is the declaration of a php file.
The error message is this:
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 am hosted thru godaddy so I don't exactly have access to these files, so I'm trying to figure out what I can do to make this warning disappear.
Basically the way this form is called is a user clicks on a link and then a popup appears which displays terms of registration. The user agrees and clicks on a submit button, which will take them to this form I'm about to put the code down for. I don't get why this error message appears?
If someone can help me out or point me in the right direction as to why. I haven't really taught myself php 5.x yet, I'm still on 4. This is the first time I've seen an error message about 4.x - it's always been earlier versions if I did something funky.
I've been trying to validate a form for the past almost 15 hours now, in strictly php because javascript is so immense that it seems every last keyword is a word you can find in the english dictionary, and ajax builds off js. So I found a way to validate a form without any data loss on user submission if a field is incorrectly filled out / neglected.
It works so beautifully it makes me wanna cry. It only took 27 variables to do, which I know I could probably put them in arrays, but hey, I've been at this 15 hours straight and I'm not gonna clean it up right now lol. I also know there are ways to validate email addresses far better than checking for an empty string - I will get on that very soon - for now I just wanted the validation part to work correctly in all fields I needed it to check
The only problem I have with this, is I get a warning message which I cannot figure out where it's coming from - since line 0 is the declaration of a php file.
The error message is this:
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 am hosted thru godaddy so I don't exactly have access to these files, so I'm trying to figure out what I can do to make this warning disappear.
Basically the way this form is called is a user clicks on a link and then a popup appears which displays terms of registration. The user agrees and clicks on a submit button, which will take them to this form I'm about to put the code down for. I don't get why this error message appears?
If someone can help me out or point me in the right direction as to why. I haven't really taught myself php 5.x yet, I'm still on 4. This is the first time I've seen an error message about 4.x - it's always been earlier versions if I did something funky.
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Last edited by sleign; Nov 15th, 2009 at 5:58 am.
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#2 Nov 15th, 2009
GoDaddy's hosting can be pretty weird. Can you create custom php.ini or .htaccess files? If so try adding either into your public (web-accessible) folder:
A file named "php.ini" containing:
session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.bug_compat_warn = 0
OR
A file name ".htaccess" containing:
php_flag session.bug_compat_42 1
php_flag session.bug_compat_warn 0
See if that helps?
A file named "php.ini" containing:
session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.bug_compat_warn = 0
OR
A file name ".htaccess" containing:
php_flag session.bug_compat_42 1
php_flag session.bug_compat_warn 0
See if that helps?
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#3 Nov 15th, 2009
u are god - that worked perfectly thank you 
I tried to upload a php.ini file into root and the warning went away.
good call ^^
I tried to upload a php.ini file into root and the warning went away.
good call ^^
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You're welcome
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