Passing Form Variables to PHP Script

[Anon]

I created a simple HTML form and used <FORM ACTION="handleform.php" METHOD=GET> but the variables don't seem to get passed. I also tried a more simplified PHP script to handle a variable manually:

print ("Your first name is $FirstName.<BR>\n");

and just tried passing the FirstName variable through the URL as in:

http://localhost/manual.php?FirstName=Brian

All that prints is "Your first name is." I'm running PHP 4.1 on IIS 5.1 under XP Pro. Since I got the coding examples from Larry Ullman's book I'm pretty sure the code is OK. I'm wondering if there is something peculiar with the IIS configuration that's causing the problem? Any thoughts?

[Anon]

Try

print "Your first name is $_GET['FirstName']";

PHP 4.1.1 changed the way it manages its variables that come from the user. Read the Release Announcement for PHP 4.1.1 at php.net

Diego