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Started February 3, 2010 @ 11:00am by Wolf
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Wolf
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Posts: 11
 
Server settings and FormsFebruary 3, 2010 @ 11:00am
I have a couple custom pages/forms that allow users to query custom tables in the database. It's a single page form that prompts the user for input and then re-displays the page with original form along with the retrieved information.

These pages have been in place and working for a long time (on multiple sites), but they have suddenly stopped working and I'm at a loss to figure out why.

In it's simplest form, the code posts back to itself like this:

SAMPLE SCRIPT

Code

$num_to_guess = 90;
$message = "";
if (!isset($guess)){
$message = "Welcome to the guessing machine!";
} elseif ($guess > $num_to_guess){
$message = "$guess is too big!";
} elseif ($guess < $num_to_guess){
$message = "$guess is too small!";
} else {
$message = "Well done!";
}
print $message
?>

<form action="<?php '.$MainURL.'?>/index.php/pages/test_php_form.html" method="POST">
Type in your guess here: <input type="text" name="guess">
</form>


phpinfo()

Code


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This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
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PHP Credits

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(
)


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Thank you.
Wolf
 
DCSun
Administrator



Posts: 625
 
February 3, 2010 @ 12:14pm
Hey Wolf,

Nice to see you back here again.

My best guess is there was a PHP upgrade performed (probably 4.something before and 5.2.8 now), and in that process Register Globals got turned off. Register Globals give you the ability to access form post and query string data by just pretending it's already a variable (in this case $guess), which while convenient, turned out to be a bit of a security problem for PHP.

You should be able to re-write it pretty easily. Since this is inside FlexCMS already, you can use its built in form processing functions (note the few lines at the top which initiate the form processing (it only happens when asked to, not on every page load), and the different style of accessing the data).

You'll probably also want to re-write your line that has $MainURL in it. Either change that to $BaseURL, or remove the "/index.php" after it, as $MainURL should already contain "http://www.domain.com/index.php" and this will be giving you two of them (it's possible you have a re-write happening to remove the index.php from URLs and that's not giving you two of them there right now, but should still be changed).


Dave


Code


ReadFormArguments();
Global $FormArguments;

$guess = $FormArguments['guess'];


$num_to_guess = 90;
$message = "";
if (!isset($guess)){
$message = "Welcome to the guessing machine!";
} elseif ($guess > $num_to_guess){
$message = "$guess is too big!";
} elseif ($guess < $num_to_guess){
$message = "$guess is too small!";
} else {
$message = "Well done!";
}
print $message
?>

<form action="<?php '.$MainURL.'?>/pages/test_php_form.html" method="POST">
Type in your guess here: <input type="text" name="guess">
</form>



FlexCMS v3.2 Has Been Released!
 
Wolf
Administrator



Posts: 11
 
Mission AccomplishesFebruary 3, 2010 @ 3:16pm
Dave,

Thanks! That did the trick. Smile Hope you're doing well up there in the cold north!

Cheers,
Wolf
 

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