[Phpmyadmin-devel] disabled functions for security

[Marc Delisle]

Garvin Hicking wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>So we could put the @ in front of the 2 ini_get calls, as suggested
>>in the bug report, but this means they won't be able to upload.
>>I smell a new faq entry about upgrading their PHP:)
> 
> 
> Can't we put an override file_upload directive in the configuration? I don't see why
> users shouldn't be able to use a function only because a hoster forbids the function
> to see whether a function is available. Users who know, that file upload is enabled
> for them can then enable it. A comment in the config should document, that Users
> should know what they're doing.
> 
> Nevertheless, this is an annoying issue. :-\
> 
> Regards,
> Garvin.

So, another suggestion.  We reverse the logic of this part of code.

If we cannot detect that file uploads are disabled, we set $is_upload to 
TRUE.

Marc