$GLOBALS array

[Michael Wild]

Hi all

I'm not quite new to PHP, but also not very proficient in its use, so
please excuse me if my question is a FAQ. Perhaps I didn't know the right
terms, but google wasn't my friend this time :-)
I had a page running on a host which worked perfectly fine. Then, one day,
it stopped working since strangly some values in the $GLOBALS array are
not set. For example things such as $GLOBALS["_GET"], $GLOBALS["_POST"],
$GLOBALS["_ENV"] and $GLOBALS["_SERVER"] are just set to NULL. It would be
fine with me, if they were just empty arrays (as they are on my
test-system on the laptop), but I would really hate to hack into vBulletin
to get it to run again.

My suspicion is that the hosting company changed their php.ini, but they
have a lousy service, haven't gotten any answer from them for months
now. So I don't expect them to help me here either.

Thanks for any help
Michael

[whiskey]

Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.

[Erwin Moller]

whiskey wrote:

Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.

And you mispelled GLOBALS.
;-)

But besides the typo: good advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Michael Wild]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:35:33 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

whiskey wrote:

>Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.

And you mispelled GLOBALS.
;-)

But besides the typo: good advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

:-)

I already did, and it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =[_POST] =)

On my laptop it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =array() [_POST] =array() )
So there definitely is a difference.
Michael

[Erwin Moller]

Michael Wild wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:35:33 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

>whiskey wrote:

>>Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.

And you mispelled GLOBALS.
;-)

But besides the typo: good advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

:-)

I already did, and it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =[_POST] =)

On my laptop it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =array() [_POST] =array() )
So there definitely is a difference.
Michael

Hi,

To make the print_r() more readable, use <pre>

<pre>
<?php print_r($GLOBALS); ?>
</pre>

But more usefull maybe in your situation:

<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
</pre>

and

<pre>
<?php print_r($_GET); ?>
</pre>

Regards,
Erwin

[Michael Wild]

Erwin Moller wrote:

Michael Wild wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:35:33 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

>>whiskey wrote:

Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.
And you mispelled GLOBALS.
;-)

But besides the typo: good advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

:-)

I already did, and it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =[_POST] =)

On my laptop it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =array() [_POST] =array() )
So there definitely is a difference.
Michael

Hi,

To make the print_r() more readable, use <pre>

<pre>
<?php print_r($GLOBALS); ?>
</pre>

But more usefull maybe in your situation:

<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
</pre>

and

<pre>
<?php print_r($_GET); ?>
</pre>

Regards,
Erwin

well, they are just not set... a test for $_GET==NULL or $_POST==NULL
returns true.

thanks for the formatting tip!

michael

[Erwin Moller]

Michael Wild wrote:

Erwin Moller wrote:

>Michael Wild wrote:

>>On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:35:33 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

whiskey wrote:

Do a print_r($LOBALS), maybe you misspelled the keys.
And you mispelled GLOBALS.
;-)

But besides the typo: good advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

:-)

I already did, and it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =[_POST] =)

On my laptop it looks like:

Array (<stuff left out[_GET] =array() [_POST] =array() )
So there definitely is a difference.
Michael

Hi,

To make the print_r() more readable, use <pre>

<pre>
<?php print_r($GLOBALS); ?>
</pre>

But more usefull maybe in your situation:

<pre>
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
</pre>

and

<pre>
<?php print_r($_GET); ?>
</pre>

Regards,
Erwin

well, they are just not set... a test for $_GET==NULL or $_POST==NULL
returns true.

thanks for the formatting tip!

michael

Glad I could help with the formatting.
But sorry, I have no clue why $_GET and $_POST are NULL.
I never saw that before.
Contact your (lazy) ISP and kick his/her lazy ass.
If you pay for their service they should help you with such enormous
problems ($_GET and $_POST are completely accepted and used everywhere, I
couldn't make an app without them).

Good luck. :-/

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Michael Wild]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:00:08 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

Glad I could help with the formatting.
But sorry, I have no clue why $_GET and $_POST are NULL.
I never saw that before.
Contact your (lazy) ISP and kick his/her lazy ass.
If you pay for their service they should help you with such enormous
problems ($_GET and $_POST are completely accepted and used everywhere, I
couldn't make an app without them).

Good luck. :-/

Regards,
Erwin Moller

that's where the problems start, our club virtually pays nothing. it's
like "i know somebody who's married to someone else who does some
hosting"... not the way i would have chosen, but i'm stuck with it...

so you don't know of any directive which could cause such a thing to
happen?

thanks for the help anyways!

michael

[Erwin Moller]

Michael Wild wrote:

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:00:08 +0100, Erwin Moller wrote:

>Glad I could help with the formatting.
But sorry, I have no clue why $_GET and $_POST are NULL.
I never saw that before.
Contact your (lazy) ISP and kick his/her lazy ass.
If you pay for their service they should help you with such enormous
problems ($_GET and $_POST are completely accepted and used everywhere, I
couldn't make an app without them).

Good luck. :-/

Regards,
Erwin Moller

that's where the problems start, our club virtually pays nothing. it's
like "i know somebody who's married to someone else who does some
hosting"... not the way i would have chosen, but i'm stuck with it...

Yes, that is the problem with free services: You cannot treaten to walk
away. :-/

so you don't know of any directive which could cause such a thing to
happen?

No sorry.
I am one of those spoiled guys with their own server, so it is my php.ini,
and I only changed stuff I understood.

Maybe you can repost your question, rephrasing your problem and what you
tried, the settings that may be of importance, maybe a dump of your php.ini
file.
That helps sometimes.
Some (many) visitors only look at recent post (last few days) and they
mayhap missed this thread.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
thanks for the help anyways!

michael