Anyone here good at porting modules for the coming release? I've got a module that works fine with an 8.2b distribution but not at all with 9.0. It's a game module that includes a bunch of Flash-games for the site. This is the index file:

index.php

Admin edit: Post the file as attachment

use $_GET and $_POST for retrieving data

And that's exactly why I asked for someone to help me out with this... I've got absolutely NO idea.... maybe djdevon3 or someone else wanna take a stab?

I will give you an explanation:

index.php?name=Andreas&file=test

In the above example there are 2 GET variables
- $_GET['name']
- $_GET['file']

The old system didn't care much about it so they where already defined in the system as:
- $name
- $file

There's an security risk involved with this second method (aka register_globals)
Because the method doesn't care if you use GET, POST or COOKIE so we forced to block this behaviour in 9.0

When you POST data (like in a <form method="post"> you can retrieve the data using:
- $_POST['name']
- $_POST['file']

If an variable can be give thru GET and POST you construct it like this:

PHP:

$name = ( isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : (isset($_GET['name'])?$_GET['name']:'default') );

DJ,

Is this the pnly thing that has to be changed to make a global variables = off port?

in 9.0, registar global is OFF. you need to use $_GET and $_POST

ouch that's why nothing is going to work. so the question mark denotes a get or post?

Thanks alot DJMaze! Even though I am very unsure if I will be able to port the module by myself I've just gained an enormous understanding of why certain things were done in one way by PHPNuke and another way here, by you guys!

djdevon3 wrote:

ouch that's why nothing is going to work. so the question mark denotes a get or post?

anything passed through the url uses a GET to set the variable. Anything passed through a form uses a POST to set the variable.

Andreas wrote:

Thanks alot DJMaze! Even though I am very unsure if I will be able to port the module by myself I've just gained an enormous understanding of why certain things were done in one way by PHPNuke and another way here, by you guys!

NP someone will eventualy convert the file for you.
Although i think this thread is a great oppertunity to lay out the problems in the upcomming 9.0 so everyone will eventualy understand how to work with it and understand why we've changed.

Yeah, this community is filled with nice people that help eachother. I try my best with my limited knowledge to help people, but we all gotta start somewhere, right?

Atleast I learned something about PHP and one reason for why DragonFly is more secure than other CMS' out there.