Thread: What is register_globals and how to fix?

Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory.

Error I get when I go to site.

Anyone know how to fix?
Or what it is?

Never mind.
Googled and found the fix and it works (I guess).
At least now the admin side of the site comes up and now the site itself comes up.

From everything I have ever read it's not a good idea to enable it, it's a security issue.

register globals allows you to have $_GET['test'] and $_POST['test'] equate to $test

so if you used a variable called $query to execute a mysql_query then a hacker could easily call your url by

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its a bad example still but register globals is bad news even the programmers that make php tell you to turn it off.