Updated: 28 September 2026

No. The register_globals setting was removed from PHP in version 5.4 (2012), so it cannot be turned on in any supported PHP version.

Scripts that depend on it are very old and usually insecure. Update them to a current version, or fix them to read input from $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE.

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