Topic: MOD/PLUGIN AUTHORS: register_globals
This is just a heads up on a new feature that will be introduced in the next release of PunBB (whenever that may come).
Starting with the next release of PunBB, a mechanism that unregisters globals will be included. What this means is that even though your server might be running with register_globals enabled, PunBB will unregister any variables found in the global scope, forcing the use of the superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE etc). I.e. if your mod/plugin requires register_globals, it will NOT work with the next version of PunBB, regardless of server settings.