apache problem php problem

lanqanein

i have a problem.

i can't seem to pass a variable through the header<url>

ie http://url.php?test=var

i just installed apache, and php and i have tried to make this work but it doesn't seem to work? any ideas?

thanks

intenz

Try this...

echo $_GET['var'];

Then run http://www.domain.com/file.php?var=foo
You should get 'foo' printed to the screen.
If not, your setup of PHP/Apache is wrong.

ToeShot

Why Did

echo $var;

not work when the book I have says it will if you have resources_global = On in your php.ini file, which I do.

but yet your

echo $_GET['var'];

did work with my same setup. Could you shed some light please?

dannys

There is no such directive as resources_global - I think you're after register_globals

ToeShot

yes that is what I meant

register_globals = On

dannys

Did you restart Apache after updating the php.ini?

If you do following?

echo (int)ini_get('register_gobals');

If you get 0 register_globals is off - 1 if it's on.

lanqanein

it worked

thanks

the reguisterglobals on did the trick

thanks
for the fish...😃

ToeShot

as for the globals piece of code you supplied here is how I used it.

<?php
echo_(int)ini_get('register_gobals');
?>

</BODY>
</HTML>

here is my result

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_INT_CAST in /www/globals.php on line 5

I seem to get this quite a bit do you know how to correct this?

ToeShot

Solved My problem, but I am still confused.

at the top of the php.ini file it says tha t it searches for the php.ini file in the current working directory, where the PHPRC variable says it is and the path that was define at the time of compile. But I had to place it in the /usr/local/php/lib/ Directory. Why is that?