I'm working with a legacy code that someone had left, and it happens to be my task to re-deploy the code. I'm using Windows Server 2003, Apache 2.0.63 and PHP 5.2.10.
It doesn't work. At least, not in the way I had expected it to work. Call it bugs, if you will.
Upon inspecting, I had a suspicion that this code (which appears numerous times in the application) is the culprit.
&$this->
To illustrate the problem, I reproduce this code:
<?php
phpinfo();
//$variable = &$this->request;
?>
The code above executed beautifully and as expected. However, if I change the code to:
<?
phpinfo();
//$variable = &$this->request;
?>
The code misbehaves, and produce this result on the screen instead, which of course, totally unwanted and unexpected.
request; ?>
Now, the code is littered with the similar code as above, and as such, the application now produce output on the screen similar to this one:
request; $user = &$this->user; // This is comment return false; ?>
for a code that reads as:
<?
$request = &$this->request;
$user = &$this->user;
// This is comment
return false;
?>
I had tried to change every <? with <?php whenever &$this-> rears its ugly head, but most of the time, it introduces a new error instead.
I reinstalled PHP and Apache, even using another version of PHP (5.2.6) and it still won't work. I deployed the code in my localhost (Mac OS X, PHP 5.2.8 and Apache 2.0.63) and it worked without a hassle.
Please, anyone, any enlightenment will more than suffice.
