Dreamweaver - Server Scripts MMHTTPDB.php error

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Server Scripts MMHTTPDB.php error

ed Cohen

2005-08-31, 7:34 pm

To All,
I have found a problem that Dreamweaver MX 2004 has with the ISP that my
client is using. When you want to connect Dreamweaver to a mysql db,
Dreamweaver creates 2 hidden files. One is: mysql.php. The second is
MMHTTPDB.php. Both are in the _mmServerScripts directory. Well, after much
looking around I found that the MMHTTPDB.php script does not work with old
versions of PHP. In this case, the isp that my client is using uses PHP version
4.0.6!! In this version of php, you cannot use the following:
$_POST['variableX']. It just does not work, the _POST variable does not exist.
My solution was to hand edit the MMHTTPDB.php file are replace all the _POST's
with HTTP_POST_VARS. Then I uploaded the file to the server and viola! It
works!!!
Now, here is my question, is there a patch, mod or something that I can
apply to Dreamweaver MX 2004 that will automatically solve this problem?

Ed Cohen | encohen@comcast.net

Tom Muck

2005-08-31, 7:35 pm

ed Cohen wrote:
> To All,
> I have found a problem that Dreamweaver MX 2004 has with the ISP that my
> client is using. When you want to connect Dreamweaver to a mysql db,
> Dreamweaver creates 2 hidden files. One is: mysql.php. The second is
> MMHTTPDB.php. Both are in the _mmServerScripts directory. Well, after much
> looking around I found that the MMHTTPDB.php script does not work with old
> versions of PHP. In this case, the isp that my client is using uses PHP version
> 4.0.6!! In this version of php, you cannot use the following:
> $_POST['variableX']. It just does not work, the _POST variable does not exist.
> My solution was to hand edit the MMHTTPDB.php file are replace all the _POST's
> with HTTP_POST_VARS. Then I uploaded the file to the server and viola! It
> works!!!
> Now, here is my question, is there a patch, mod or something that I can
> apply to Dreamweaver MX 2004 that will automatically solve this problem?

No. If there is a host still using 4.0.6, run away from that host. There
have been MAJOR security concerns and fixes since that version came out
over 4 years ago.

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