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Bug #29176 $GLOBALS['_REQUEST'], $GLOBALS['_ENV'] AND $GLOBALS['_SERVER'] are empty
Submitted: 2004-07-15 04:27 UTC Modified: 2004-11-12 08:46 UTC
Votes:30
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.8
Reproduced:22 of 25 (88.0%)
Same Version:12 (54.5%)
Same OS:9 (40.9%)
From: webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de Assigned: sesser (profile)
Status: Wont fix Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 5.0.0 OS: All
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-07-15 04:27 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
Description:
------------
$_GLOBALS somehow doesn't contain the arrays $_REQUEST, 
$_ENV and $_SERVER. This worked fine in PHP4. 

Reproduce code:
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<?php

var_dump($GLOBALS['_SERVER']);
var_dump($GLOBALS['_ENV']);
var_dump($GLOBALS['_REQUEST']);

?>

Expected result:
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The contents of the arrays $_SERVER, $_ENV and $_REQUEST 
are being printed. 

Actual result:
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NULL NULL NULL is being printed. 

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 [2004-07-15 12:23 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
Someone at Turck-MMCache found out in a related bug I've reported, that a workaround is to set
register_long_arrays = On
in the php.ini
 [2004-07-15 15:21 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
AFAICS the php-commandline is not affected to this bug.
 [2004-07-16 02:22 UTC] tmgh at www dot deyang dot gov dot cn
yes,it's me to post the bug for turck-mmcache.and when set register_long_arrays = On in the php.ini,php5 works fine with turck-mmcache.i dont' know whether it's php5's bug or mmcache's bug.maybe someone can fix it.
but without mmcache and set register_long_arrays = Off in the php.ini,php5 works fine.maybe it's mmcache's bug,i think.
 [2004-07-16 02:26 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
I have tested this with the MMCache section commented out. But I'll recheck later, if I'm on my SuSE Box again.
 [2004-07-16 02:41 UTC] tmgh at www dot deyang dot gov dot cn
if you fix the bug,please email to me and i want to use php5 and mmcache.thanks.
 [2004-07-16 02:53 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
I have tested this now. The MMCache-Section was commented out, so its definately not related.

PS: If a dev fixes this, this is checked into CVS, so you can simply compile or download the latest snapshot after the fix have been checked in.

Regards,
  Christian Stadler
 [2004-07-16 03:04 UTC] tmgh at www dot deyang dot gov dot cn
at present,the cvs does not have newest source.maybe i have to wait for few time.thanks for your response.
ps:it's mmcache's bug?
 [2004-07-16 03:09 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
The dev replys, when he checked in a fix. So we have to wait, what the devs say ;)
 [2004-07-16 09:35 UTC] tmgh at www dot deyang dot gov dot cn
if set
register_long_arrays=Off
auto_globals_jit=off
,php5+mmcache2.4.7-cvs work greatly.
can somebody tell me what's auto_globals_jit?
 [2004-08-19 09:20 UTC] info at webaq dot com
PHP File use "SafeGuard Suite 3.5.0" encode 
Apache 1.3.29
PHP 5.0.0
Zend Engine v2.0.0
Zend Optimizer v2.5.3

Notice: Undefined variable: _SERVER in /www/ZendEncode.php on line 2

Undefined variable: _SERVER!!! >_<
 [2004-08-19 23:01 UTC] marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk
I'm seeing this in a fresh compile of 5.0.1 on RedHat EL 
3. Again, turning register_long_arrays is a workaround 
until it's fixed properly. FWIW, I'm also using mmcache.
 [2004-08-20 19:56 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
Perhaps triggering the jit, when $GLOBALS['_REQUEST'], $GLOBALS['_ENV'] or $GLOBALS['_SERVER'] is being called should fix the issue?
 [2004-08-20 20:09 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
mmh ... or even $GLOBALS in general, so var_dump($GLOBALS) would include $_SERVER, $_ENV and $_REQUEST and scripts, like

<?php

var_dump(in_array('_SERVER', array_keys($GLOBALS)));

?>

work as expected, which means the above script would return bool(true) for example?
 [2004-08-24 03:12 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
Changing OS from SuSE 9.0 to All, since this is not limited to SuSE.
 [2004-11-11 09:17 UTC] marrtins at hackers dot lv
i think this is a mmcache issue. today i get similar problems - once file is loaded with mmcache it is ok, next time there is no more $_SERVER variable executing that script again.

notice, that it happens with apache (v 1.3.33), from command line same script works well (php5.0.2).

also, with php4.3.7+apache1.3.27 it works as excpected too.
 [2004-11-11 09:56 UTC] tony2001@php.net
Can you reproduce it without mmcache enabled ?
 [2004-11-11 10:58 UTC] webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
Yes, I could reproduce this without using mmcache.

This is dependent of auto_globals_jit. The problem is, that for example var_dump($_SERVER); does trigger the jit, but that var_dump($GLOBALS['_SERVER']); doesn't.
 [2004-11-12 08:46 UTC] derick@php.net
$GLOBALS["_SERVER"] would be silly to use anyway. I am going to mark this as Wont Fix as this is not guaranteed to work.
 [2010-06-05 12:47 UTC] php at caves dot org dot uk
An alternative to the workaround of putting "register_long_arrays = On", in php.ini is to include a reference to $_SERVER (etc) *anywhere* in your PHP script. This seems to trigger the population of $GLOBALS with the correct data. The following example demonstrates this. Un-comment the lines at the bottom to implement and demonstrate the work-around.

echo "_SERVER  array is {$GLOBALS['_SERVER']}  <BR>";
echo "_GET     array is {$GLOBALS['_GET']}     <BR>";
echo "_POST    array is {$GLOBALS['_POST']}    <BR>";
echo "_FILES   array is {$GLOBALS['_FILES']}   <BR>";
echo "_COOKIE  array is {$GLOBALS['_COOKIE']}  <BR>";
echo "_REQUEST array is {$GLOBALS['_REQUEST']} <BR>";
echo "_ENV     array is {$GLOBALS['_ENV']}     <BR><BR>";
//echo "\$_SERVER    is $_SERVER<BR>";
//echo "\$_REQUEST   is $_REQUEST<BR>";
//echo "\$_ENV       is $_ENV<BR>";
 [2010-06-06 21:35 UTC] php at caves dot org dot uk
Oh, I am an idiot. Its not strange behaviour at all, is it?  Its a perfectly understandable side-effect of having auto_globals_jit = on, and instead of setting that to off, its better not to use the superglobal $GLOBALS for accessing _SERVER.  I should have read the discussion properly!
 
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