While attempting to install Geeklog 1.3.9sr2, I get the following error indications:

Warning: You have register_globals = Off in your php.ini. However, Geeklog requires register_globals to be on. Before you continue, please set it to on and restart your web server.

In /etc/php.ini, I turn register_globals on, restart httpd, but still get the same error message. Is the install.php brain dead? Or something simple you didn’t mention in the docs?

In the php.ini file is this info:

; - register_globals = On [Security, Performance]
; Global variables are no longer registered for input data (POST, GET, cookies,
; environment and other server variables). Instead of using $foo, you must use
; you can use $_REQUEST["foo"] (includes any variable that arrives through the
; request, namely, POST, GET and cookie variables), or use one of the specific
; $_GET["foo"], $_POST["foo"], $_COOKIE["foo"] or $_FILES["foo"], depending
; on where the input originates. Also, you can look at the
; import_request_variables() function.
; Note that register_globals is going to be deprecated (i.e., turned off by
; default) in the next version of PHP, because it often leads to security bugs.
; Read http://php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php for further
; information.

I tried both of these with the same results:
register_globals = On [same format as other selected switches]
- register_globals = On [deleting just the semicolon in case the dash was important]

Do you intend to modify Geeklog to keep up with the PHP trend? So anyway I continue in the hope it is an error in the script that only refuses to recognize the switch. On the third page, I then get the below error, and that’s all she wrote !! Same indication as an earlier poster placed here in the forum (14 Oct ?)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/weblog/system/databases/mysql.class.php on line 108

Any ideas what I am missing, or what is broken? This is not in the troubleshooting symptoms of the documentation. BTW, WinZip is not a factor.
Running Linux 2.6.8.x, Apache 2.0.51, PHP 4.3.8, MySQL server 3.23.58
Thanks for any helpful advice.
Sam.

check down on line 380 of the php.ini

In other words: In the php.ini, lines that begin with a semicolon are comments.

bye, Dirk

Yes, I know the semicolon is a comment. The previous referred to the options being prepended with a dash, where the following options in later sections were not. The inconsistency apparently confused me.
BTW I love the cute little emoticons...