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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.

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  1. <?php 
  2. session_start();
  3.  
  4. 	$charMessage = "";
  5. 	$charMessage2 = "";
  6. 	$jobsMessage = "";
  7. 	$passMessage = "";
  8. 	$passMessage2 = "";
  9. 	$emailMessage = "";
  10. 	$emailMessage2 = "";
  11. 	$essayMessage = "";
  12. 	$codeMessage = "";
  13. 	$CharFont = "allClearFont";
  14. 	$jobsFont = "allClearFont";
  15. 	$passFont = "allClearFont";
  16. 	$emailFont = "allClearFont";
  17. 	$essayFont = "allClearFont";
  18. 	$codeFont = "allClearFont";
  19. 	$charName = strip_tags($_POST['charName']);
  20. 	$jobs = strip_tags($_POST['jobs']);
  21. 	$pass1 = strip_tags($_POST['pass1']);
  22. 	$pass2 = strip_tags($_POST['pass2']);
  23. 	$email = strip_tags($_POST['email']);
  24. 	$email2 = strip_tags($_POST['email2']);
  25. 	$zm = strip_tags($_POST['zm']);
  26. 	$cop = strip_tags($_POST['cop']);
  27. 	$toa = strip_tags($_POST['toa']);
  28. 	$wotg = strip_tags($_POST['wotg']);
  29. 	$essay = strip_tags($_POST['essay']);
  30. 	$code = strip_tags($_POST['code']);
  31.  
  32. 	if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
  33. 	{
  34.  
  35. 		##################
  36. 		# CHECK CHAR NAME
  37. 		##################
  38. 		if(strlen($charName) < 4 || strlen($charName) > 16 || $charName == "")
  39. 		{
  40. 			$charFont = "errorFont";
  41. 			$charMessage = "Character Name must be between 4 and 16 characters.";
  42. 		}
  43. 		else if(!ctype_alpha($charName))
  44. 		{
  45. 			$charMessage2 = "Character name cannot contain any numbers.";
  46. 			$charFont = "errorFont";
  47. 		}
  48. 		##################
  49. 		# CHECK JOBS
  50. 		##################
  51. 		if(strlen($jobs) < 3)
  52. 		{
  53. 			$jobsFont = "errorFont";
  54. 			$jobsMessage = "You have not added your jobs.";
  55. 		}
  56. 		##################
  57. 		# CHECK PASSWORD
  58. 		##################
  59. 		if(strlen($pass1) < 5 || strlen($pass1) > 15 || strlen($pass2) < 5 || strlen($pass2) > 15 )
  60. 		{
  61. 			$passMessage = "Password must be between 5 and 15 characters.";
  62. 			$passFont = "errorFont";
  63. 		}
  64. 		else if($pass1 != $pass2)
  65. 		{
  66. 			$passMessage2 = "Passwords do not match.";
  67. 			$passFont = "errorFont";
  68. 		}
  69. 		##################
  70. 		# CHECK EMAIL
  71. 		##################
  72. 		if(strlen($email) == "")
  73. 		{
  74. 			$emailMessage = "You have not added your email address.";
  75. 			$emailFont = "errorFont";
  76. 		}
  77. 		else if($email != $email2)
  78. 		{
  79. 			$emailMessage2 = "Email addresses do not match.";
  80. 			$emailFont = "errorFont";
  81. 		}
  82. 		##################
  83. 		# CHECK ESSAY
  84. 		##################
  85. 		if($essay == "")
  86. 		{
  87. 			$essayMessage = "You have not filled out \"In your own words\".";
  88. 			$essayFont = "errorFont";
  89. 		}		
  90. 		##################
  91. 		# CHECK CAPTCHA
  92. 		##################
  93. 		if(isset($_POST['code']) && isset($_SESSION['code'])) 
  94. 		        if(md5($_POST['code']) != $_SESSION['code']) 
  95. 			{
  96. 				$codeMessage = "Validation Incorrect.";
  97. 				$codeFont = "errorFont";
  98. 			}
  99.  
  100.     }
  101. 		##################
  102. 		# ALL CLEAR STUFF
  103. 		##################
  104. 	else
  105. 	{
  106.                // DO REDIRECTION HERE  }
  107.  
  108. ?>
  109.  
  110. <html>
  111. <head>
  112. <link rel="stylesheet" href="../lib/luna.css" type="text/css"/>
  113. <title>Luna Knights::Application for Membership</title>
  114. </head>
  115.  
  116. <body onload="window.resizeTo(800,600); window.moveTo(100,100);">
  117. <div id="contents">
  118.  
  119. <strong>Luna Knights Application</strong>
  120. <br/>
  121. Please fill out the form completely:
  122. <br/><br/>
  123.  
  124. <form method="post" target="_self">
  125. <fieldset id="applyInfoFieldset">
  126. <legend name="legend">Your Information</legend>
  127. <table width="97%" style="border: none;">
  128. <tr>
  129. <td align="left" class="hideIt <?php echo $charFont;?>">Character Name:</td>
  130. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input class="input" value="<?php echo $charName;?>" type="text" id="charName" name="charName" maxlength="16" cols="35"/></td>
  131. <td class="hideIt"><?php if($charMessage != "") { echo $charMessage; } else if($charMessage2 != "") { echo $charMessage2; }?></td>
  132. <td align="right" class="hideIt <?php echo $jobsFont;?>">List level 75 Jobs:</td>
  133. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input type="text" class="input" value="<?php echo $jobs;?>" id="jobs" name="jobs" maxlength="100" cols="50"/></td>
  134. <td class="hideIt"><?php if($jobsMessage != "") { echo $jobsMessage; }?></td>
  135. </tr>
  136.  
  137. <tr>
  138. <td align="left" class="hideIt <?php print $passFont;?>">Password:</td>
  139. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input class="input" value="<?php echo $pass1;?>" type="password" id="pass1" name="pass1" maxlength="15" cols="35"/></td>
  140. <td class="hideIt"><?php if($passMessage != "") { echo $passMessage; } else if($passMessage2 != "") { echo $passMessage2; }?></td>
  141. <td align="right" class="hideIt <?php print $passFont;?>">Repeat Password:</td>
  142. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input class="input" value="<?php echo $pass2;?>" type="password" id="pass2" name="pass2" maxlength="15" cols="35"/></td>
  143. </tr>
  144.  
  145. <tr>
  146. <td align="left" class="hideIt <?php print $emailFont;?>">Email:</td>
  147. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input class="input" value="<?php echo $email;?>" type="text" id="email" name="email" maxlength="150"/></td>
  148. <td class="hideIt"><?php if($emailMessage != "") { echo $emailMessage; } else if($emailMessage2 != "") { echo $emailMessage2; }?></td>
  149. <td align="right" class="hideIt <?php print $emailFont;?>">Confirm Email:</td>
  150. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input class="input" value="<?php echo $email2;?>" type="text" id="email2" name="email2" maxlength="150"/></td>
  151. </tr>
  152. </table>
  153. </fieldset>
  154.  
  155.  
  156. <fieldset id="applyMissionFieldset">
  157. <legend name="legend">Mission Status</legend>
  158. <table width="90%" style="border: none;">
  159. <tr>
  160. <td align="left" class="hideIt">Zilart:</td>
  161. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input type="text" class="input" maxlength="5" name="zm" value="<?php echo $zm;?>" style="width: 45px;"/></td>
  162. <td align="right" class="hideIt">CoP</td>
  163. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input type="text" class="input" maxlength="5" name="cop" value="<?php echo $cop;?>" style="width: 45px;"/></td>
  164. </tr>
  165.  
  166. <tr>
  167. <td align="left" class="hideIt">Aht Urgan</td>
  168. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input type="text" class="input" maxlength="5" name="toa" value="<?php echo $toa;?>" style="width: 45px;"/></td>
  169. <td align="right" class="hideIt">WotG</td>
  170. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input type="text" class="input" maxlength="5" name="wotg" value="<?php echo $wotg;?>" style="width: 45px;"/></td>
  171. </tr>
  172. </table>
  173. </fieldset>
  174.  
  175. <fieldset id="applyEssayFieldset">
  176. <legend name="legend">In your own Words</legend>
  177. <?php if($essayMessage != "") { echo $essayMessage."<br/>"; }?>
  178. <span class="<?php echo $essayFont;?>">Why should you be a member of Luna Knights?</span>
  179. <br/>
  180. <textarea name="essay" maxlength="500" style="width: 600px; height: 100px;" wrap="hard"><?php if($essay != "") { echo $essay; } ?></textarea>
  181. </fieldset>
  182.  
  183.  
  184. <table width="25%" style="border: none;">
  185. <tr>
  186. <td align="left" class="hideIt">Verification Code:</td>
  187. </tr>
  188.  
  189. <tr>
  190. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><img src="../images/verify.php"></td>
  191. </tr>
  192.  
  193. <tr>
  194. <td align="left" class="hideIt"><input class="input" type="text" name="code" maxlength="6"/></td>
  195. <td align="right" class="hideIt"><input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Submit"/></td>
  196. </tr>
  197.  
  198. <tr>
  199. <td class="hideIt <?php echo $codeFont;?>" align="left"><?php if($codeMessage != "") { echo $codeMessage; }?></td>
  200. </tr>
  201. </table>
  202. </form>
  203.  
  204. </div>
  205. </body>
  206. </html>
Last edited by sleign; Nov 15th, 2009 at 5:58 am.
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Re: script relies on a side effect which existed until php 4.2.3?
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:

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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 ^^
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