Cleaning website. Don't understand weird PHP.

[caryhartline]

I am cleaning up my website (replace tables with divs and turning all design code in to CSS).  I would like to know a couple things.  First, I see that register_globals is deprecated, but I still see new blog posts and such saying to keep it.  I want to know if I should remove it, how it works, and if I do remove it what should I replace it with.  Also, I have code like:

 

'".$SETTINGS['siteurl']."uploaded/".$val["pict_url"]."'

 

and I was wondering whether it can be replaced with Javascript.  Please don't call me a noob or tell me to Google it because when it comes to me, Google, and PHP; I'm like a kid in a candy shop and all the candy is filled with dirt.

[gizmola]

I doubt that there are blogs telling people to use register_globals.  Don't use it.  It is completely deprecated (removed entirely) from php v. 5.3.  It's defunct, dead, gone. 

 

In the way you are describing it, Javascript runs in the browser (client).  It can not be used to replace php, nor can php be used to replace javascript.  They are two different tools that run in entirely different places.  PHP runs on the server.

 

Just for completeness sake, there are projects that allow you to write serverside code in javascript, but that is not relevant to this question, nor an avenue open to you in regards to a site based on php scripts.