{"id":188,"date":"2008-06-03T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T06:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-06-03T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T06:37:32","slug":"yahoos-sb-web-hosting-update-on-php-register_globals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/yahoos-sb-web-hosting-update-on-php-register_globals\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#039;s SB Web Hosting: Update On PHP register_globals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of recent discussion on how the PHP directive register_globals can cause security issues if enabled, and how this is causing <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/index.php\/drupal-installation-problems-with-yahoo-sb-web-hosting\/\" target=\"_self\">Drupal installation issues<\/a> for Yahoo! SB Web Hosting users. Browsing through the Yahoo! SBWH&#8217;s PHP documentation, I came across this Q&amp;A:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<h3>Q: Does  Yahoo! support the register_globals directive?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--End question--> <!--Begin answer--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>The PHP community has chosen to deprecate the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">register_globals<\/span> directive, as its misuse could result in insecure code. To help protect all of our customers, Yahoo! now defaults register_globals <span style=\"font-style: italic\">off<\/span> for all  accounts opened after May 2008.<\/p>\n<p>If you signed up for your Web Hosting account before May 2008, however, register_globals is still on by default. For your security, we recommend reviewing the PHP community&#8217;s <a class=\"bb-url\" href=\"http:\/\/us2.php.net\/register_globals\" target=\"_blank\">documentation on register_globals<\/a> carefully as you develop your scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Note that register_globals will soon be removed completely from PHP, so we recommend writing scripts that will not rely on the directive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the<a href=\"http:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/l\/us\/yahoo\/smallbusiness\/webhosting\/php\/php-36.html\" target=\"_self\"> original Yahoo page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how Yahoo! addresses this issue for users who signed up before May 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of recent discussion on how the PHP directive register_globals can cause security issues if enabled, and how this is causing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[146,261,280,369],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-drupal","tag-php","tag-register_globals","tag-yahoo","wpcat-46-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}