changing old script - register globals - how to convert?

From: kevin bailey (kbailey_at_freewayprojects.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:48:36 +0000

this old script was written when

register globals was 'on'.

now i need to convert it to run on a server with a php 4.3.6 - do i just
convert the relevant variables from

$posted_variable to $_POST['posted_variable']

i realise that many of the variables are internal to the scrit so will not
be altered.

i'm slightly concerned because some of the script refers to variables which
are used as streams and used to upload image files.

thanks for any pointers,

kev

here are the scripts from
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/05/09/webdb2.html?page=1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
  "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <title>Browse Upload Files</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">

<?php
  include 'db.inc';
  
  $query = "SELECT id, shortName, mimeName FROM files";

  if (!($connection = @ mysql_pconnect($hostName,
                                    $username,
                                    $password)))
     showerror();

  if (!mysql_select_db("files", $connection))
     showerror();
        
  if (!($result = @ mysql_query ($query, $connection)))
     showerror();
?>
    <h1>Image database</h1>

    <h3>Click here to
upload an image.</h3>
<?php
  require 'disclaimer';

  if ($row = @ mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
?>

    <table>
    <col span="1" align="right">
    <tr>
       <th>Short description</th>
       <th>File type</th>
       <th>Image</th>

    </tr>
<?php
   do
   {
?>
    <tr>
       <td><?php echo "{$row["shortName"]}";?></td>
       <td><?php echo "{$row["mimeName"]}";?></td>
       <td><?php echo "<img src=\"view.php?file={$row["id"]}\">";?></td>
    </tr>
<?php
   } while ($row = @ mysql_fetch_array($result));
?>
    </table>
<?php
  } // if mysql_fetch_array()
  else
     echo "<h3>There are no images to display</h3>\n";
?>
</body>
</html>

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