NYCPHP Meetup

[felix zaslavskiy]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:29:48 -0500
Michael Southwell <southwell at dneba.com> wrote:

> Settings in the php.ini file have an important
> effect on the operation, security and reliability of your application.
> For example, setting register_globals to a value of "on" makes it easier to
> pass variables from one script to another, but opens serious security
> vulnerabilities--so best practice is always to set it "off."
> 

Alot of shared hosts set register_globals to off in their php.ini file.  If one needs to run scrip with register_globals to on then a nice trick exists. In .htaccess file one  can set  'php_value register_globals 1'

Also I seen programs that dont like magic_quote_gpc to be set to 1 to its one can also set that value to 0 in .htaccess file.

> What settings do you consider essential?  How should they be set, and why?
> 
> In next month's PHundamentals, we'll discuss how to manage these settings 
> most effectively.
> 
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> Jeff Siegel and Mike Southwell
> The PHundamentals Team
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