Emulate register_globals off
function unregister_GLOBALS() { if (!ini_get('register_globals')) { return; } // Might want to change this perhaps to a nicer error if (isset($_REQUEST['GLOBALS']) || isset($_FILES['GLOBALS'])) { die('GLOBALS overwrite attempt detected'); } // Variables that shouldn't be unset $noUnset = array('GLOBALS', '_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_REQUEST', '_SERVER', '_ENV', '_FILES'); $input = array_merge($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_ENV, $_FILES, isset($_SESSION) && is_array($_SESSION) ? $_SESSION : array()); foreach ($input as $k => $v) { if (!in_array($k, $noUnset) && isset($GLOBALS[$k])) { unset($GLOBALS[$k]); } } } unregister_GLOBALS();
Source: http://www.zend.com/manual/faq.misc.php#faq.misc.registerglobals