PHP – Turn register globals on off using htaccess
Problem:
My application is hosted on a server where php has register_globals set to on in php.ini. But using register_globals = on makes code error prone and is dangerous to use.
I want to turn it of for my application regardless of what is its setting for other applications.
Since the value of register_globals cannot be set at run time bu using ini_set, how can I do it?
Solution:
Use htaccess file to control this behaviour. Create a file named .htaccess in root directory of your application and write the following line in it:
php_flag register_globals off
Thats all you need to do.
You can verify this by creating a phpinfo() file. Suppose your server has register_globals set to on and you have turned it off using above syntax.
phpinfo() will show the local value as off and master value as on.
Note: Of course, this will work only if your apache configuration allows to override htaccess settings.
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Thanks, good coding