Register Globals problem is causing me a headache

[jonswaino]

Hi,

Recently something happened with the host and our website went down.

All that was displayed was the dreaded Register_globals must be turned on error. However even when following the advice about using PHP.ini and .htaccess with the flag set does not fix the problem.

 

I've tried putting a patch which removes the requirement to have the register globals set.

But part of that fix is to comment out the test on the register globals. Instead I get the error below:

 

Warning: include(includes/languages/english/) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\domains\l\lazykate.net\user\htdocs\catalog\includes\application_top.php on line 138

 

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/languages/english/' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in E:\domains\l\lazykate.net\user\htdocs\catalog\includes\application_top.php on line 138

 

Warning: require(includes/functions/localization.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\domains\l\lazykate.net\user\htdocs\catalog\includes\application_top.php on line 142

 

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions/localization.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in E:\domains\l\lazykate.net\user\htdocs\catalog\includes\application_top.php on line 142

 

Can anyone help me with this? I'm an ASP.NET developer by trade, but this PHP has give me a headache.

I've noticed that the error on finding the following file: include(includes/languages/english/ will obviously fail.

The file tried to be included from within Application_top.php using the following code:

 

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '.php');

$current_page = basename($PHP_SELF);

if (file_exists(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . $current_page)) {

include(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . $current_page);

}

 

What is happening is that the $language variable is set because we can see 'english' in the above path. But $current_page is not being set to $PHP_SELF. It seems that maybe something is really broken now, register_globals and also this problem.

 

Here is a link to the PHP info of the site

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

[ktshannon]

try $_SERVER['PHP SELF']

[jonswaino]

try $_SERVER['PHP SELF']

 

Just tried that and now back to the old error:

 

Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory.

 

Any ideas?