Parsing arguments from URL

[sathamoth]

Hi all,

I'm kinda newbie in PHP, and I have a question about parsing data into PHP variables from URL used to request the PHP document. I would like to do the following:

When URL with arguments after question mark is entered and loaded, arguments are inserted into PHP variables. For example, if user writes "www.mysite.com/thefile.php?var1=50" the "thefile.php" inserts the value 50 into $var1. I have read somewhere that this should be done automatically, but I just couldn't get that work (my variables are still empty)..

Help, advice, anything...?

[Anon]

The "register_globals" must set to "On" in
your php.ini-file.

[sathamoth]

The problem is that server isn't mine, but provided by ISP (and that means of course that I can't configure the PHP installed on that server). So is there any other way to handle the same situation?

[junebug]

have you checked:

$HTTP_GET_VARS['var1']

[sathamoth]

Well I did now, and it worked 🙂 Thanks guys.