| judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com 2006-05-30, 7:01 pm |
| ID: 37629
Comment by: judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com
Reported By: phpbugs at asystance dot nl
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: Windows XP / Debian Linux
PHP Version: 4.4.2
New Comment:
this is a "misfeature", and I don't think It would be fixed at all in
4.4 doing so, will break a lot code...
it is fixed in php6, since register_globals is gone.
Just Do not use register_globals.
Previous Comments:
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[2006-05-29 15:52:26] phpbugs at asystance dot nl
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[2006-05-29 15:49:32] phpbugs at asystance dot nl
Description:
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When register_globals = On (I know this is legacy), $_SESSION behaves
differently than the other superglobals and this (mis)behaviour is not
documented.
This is actually a duplicate of (or maybe just related to) bug #25110.
sniper@php.net calls this behaviour a "feature". I strongly disagree.
What we should agree on is that it's undocumented and unexpected.
Neither the documentation on register_globals nor the documentation on
superglobals mentions this. It also only works with $_SESSION (and not
with other superglobals), so the behaviour is very unexpected.
I tested this with two debian installations (4.4.2-1+b1 on Apache
2.0.55 and 4.3.10-16.8 on apache 1.3.33) and the latest Windows zip
package 4.4.2 on Apache2.
Reproduce code:
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<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['var'] = 'hello';
$var = 'again';
echo $_SESSION['var'];
?>
Expected result:
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Output is 'hello'
Actual result:
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Output is 'again'
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