global $null;
$null = NULL;
+/**
+ * The global $server_os variable will be "windows" if
+ * we are working in a Windows environment or "*nix"
+ * otherwise.
+ */
+global $server_os;
+if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR == '\\') $server_os = 'windows'; else $server_os = '*nix';
+
/**
* [#1518885] session.use_cookies = off breaks SquirrelMail
*
$seed .= uniqid(mt_rand(),TRUE);
$seed .= implode( '', stat( __FILE__) );
-/** PHP 4.2 and up don't require seeding, but their used seed algorithm
- * is of questionable quality, so we keep doing it ourselves. */
-mt_srand(hexdec(md5($seed)));
+// mt_srand() uses an integer to seed, so we need to distill our
+// very large seed to something useful (without taking a sub-string,
+// the integer conversion of such a large number is always 0 on
+// many systems, but strangely, 9 hex numbers - even if larger
+// than a signed 32 bit integer - seem to be an acceptable "integer"
+// seed (perhaps it is used as unsigned?)...
+// we may want to revisit this and always force it to be less than
+// 2,147,483,647
+//
+$seed = hexdec(substr(md5($seed), 0, 9));
+
+// PHP 4.2 and up don't require seeding, but their used seed algorithm
+// is of questionable quality, so we keep doing it ourselves. */
+mt_srand($seed);
/**
* calculate SM_PATH and calculate the base_uri
require(SM_PATH . 'functions/global.php');
require(SM_PATH . 'functions/strings.php');
require(SM_PATH . 'functions/arrays.php');
+require(SM_PATH . 'functions/files.php');
/* load default configuration */
require(SM_PATH . 'config/config_default.php');
error_reporting($error_level);
+/**
+ * Detect SSL connections
+ */
+$is_secure_connection = is_ssl_secured_connection();
+
+
require(SM_PATH . 'functions/plugin.php');
require(SM_PATH . 'include/languages.php');
require(SM_PATH . 'class/template/Template.class.php');