Firefox annoyance

Doesn't make much difference what you do

2) the next version of FF won't load plugins at all (flash is currently the final NPAPI plugin allowed).

I don't know which one you use, but google shows me several sites listing films on telly today, they all seemed to work.

I'm hoping that this isn't true of the older versions in W7 and XP or that in Internet Explorer because I'm tardily using the BBC Big Welsh Challenge to teach myself Welsh and it relies upon Adobe Flash.

My world has not ended but I wondered if this was a symptom of future annoyances. I actually only need the 8.00pm to 10.30 bit but I'll have a further scratch around. My TV has listings but it is slow and tedious if you want plot details and it was convenient to only have films to wade through.

it's not immediately obvious why lack of flash on your PC should cause PHP errors on the server.

Which site were you using?

Umm. My assumption but I suppose the latest Firefox update could be the problem. I re-started the machine so don't have any useful record.

Er.. TV24.co.uk (I think) but that seems fine now. Do urls age?

Flash has been an embarrassment since day one and its not accessible unless the writer actually makes it so. Shambles comes to mind, get waterfox classic if you like the old firefox. Brian

That was the first one that I found via google, works fine for me (I've not had flash installed for at least 4 years)

What's a PHP notice?

Mike

A notice is a step down from a warning, I think. It's a few years since I used PHP.

A message on screen saying that PHP ain't working.

I was getting that on tv24 for a day or so. On all browsers I tried. Now back to normal.

sounds like they had a server issue

Back to normal here as well.

php is server side code and its bad coding if it pumps errors to the screen.

Normally you do that only in development, after that they go to a log file

It's also bad practice to make a phpinfo() page accessible to the world, especially when it shows you're running an ancient version of PHP and have iffy options like register_globals turned on ...

That is why whenever I do that use apache to map it into something weird and unguessable. Yep I've got live phpinfo up there somewhere on my sites

No one has ever found it though

Oops. That's *really* old.

I cant even remember what they are...Oh. automatic assigned of GET variables. Well yes, its a bit - er - global.

But provided you initialise all the variables you are using internally, then you cant use it to override internal variables.

I still use something deprecated - short tags and magic quotes I think... simply because I always have, from when they were defaults.