PHP question

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

On 3/30/07, Nathan Meyers <nmeyers at javalinux.net> wrote:

> As I vaguely recall, some variables access patterns changed for security
> reasons - you could no longer request them by their naked property names
> but instead as elements of a properties hash. There is probably a global
> PHP configuration flag to reenable the old behavior for pages that are
> written to rely on it.
>

The old behavior is dangerous, and would leave the website
vulnerable to compromise in the presence of sloppy PHP code.
So enabling the old behavior is not an option.


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