my fault or the servers fault?

[sane993]

hey. i'm currently writing my first script (a chat room) and it works awesome offline with Apache except when I upload it to a server the form values don't get processed. For example I would write:

$name = $_POST["name"];

and then when I write it into the file all that comes up is:

has entered the chat room.

Obvisously I would like it to read:

sane993 has entered the chat room

and its got nothing to do with the script because it works offline. I was thinking along the lines of sumthing to do with php3 and php4. any ideas? oh, btw I use portland communications as my host although i don't know what vesion of php they support.

[bernouli]

open your php.ini file and see if register_global has been set to on or not

[sane993]

register_globals = Off

do I change it to

register_globals = on

and if so do I have to do anything different with my server or whatnot?

[malbera]

i would rather check the php version on the server
if you use $_POST['somevar'] register_globals can be off

[sane993]

servers version is version 4.0.0 does it need to be 4.0.5?

[malbera]

then you should use $HTTP_POST_VARS['somevar']

i guess you have php 4.2.x on your local machine

hope that helps

[sane993]

so all i have to do is go through the whole script and change $_post['somevar'] to $HTTP_POST_VARS['somevar']?? thats allright then. I can live with that.

[sane993]

thanks malbera it worked. 😉