Question

I have to debug a weird PHP application and today I came across a snippet of code which basically looked like:

<?
        if($IdUtil !=0)
        {
           $rowres=mysql_fetch_array($res);
           $TypeUtil=$rowres['Typeuser'];
           //if util is not an admin, does it have rights?
           if ($TypeUtil != ****admin)
           {
                   if($TypeUtil == 4013)
                   {
                        //======================SNIP

The line that’s stunning me is the ****admin one. It is used several times in this file, but I never saw it elsewhere. As the application is very buggy I can’t run it to use a var_dump(****admin); at the moment.

Have you guys, seen somethink like that before? And what does it mean?

Answer 1

It’s not valid PHP syntax; it will produce a syntax error when run.

Your source file must be mangled somehow.