Reintroduce $HTTP_POST_VARS in PHP 5.3

Question

I need to run a legacy PHP application in a shared hosting environment. I have promised my customer I\'ll support that legacy application for some time but I found that it d

Answer 1

It looks like the following can work.

First, create an edisplaypatch.php somewhere with following code

This code can be generalized and reused with any other program requiring the old long arrays

Then in Apache's vhost configuration add

SetEnv EDISPLAY_PATCH true

Reload Apache.

Test code works: if SetEnv is not present doesn't show nothing, if present shows what you send as rnd parameter in querystring

Little drawback: I'm including a file on EVERY PHP request