Re: [PHP] register globals on

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Can I ask a general question? One of the website that we have built was
> constructed using register globals. Thanks to that we set the language for
> browsing the website by determining user's browser language and then also
> (I think) it is used to remember some other choices users make while on
> the website (especially the language for browsing).
>
> Anyway, our ISP asks us to stop using register globals. They are right. We
> should. However, the programmer we have been using to help us, insists
> that without register globals on, we will have to revert to using cookies.
> This - he claims - is not an option because if a user blocks cookies, site
> as such will become useless (many options on the website are a consequence
> of setting the language first).
>
> I thought I would ask your opinion before we make any decision. Is it
> really so that without register globals, such things as displaying
> information from databases based on the initial choice of languages is not
> an option? I am not a programmer so I just need general guidance.

Complete rubbish. He's being lazy.

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