Problems with WIMP

baki

Hello,

i've just installed IIS 5.0 and PHP4 on my System. For testing i applied the function phpinfo(), and it seems that php working fine, but it doesnt. When I want to use for example myphp.php?input=something , following error message returns

Notice: Undefined variable: input in C:\PHP\php\myphp.php on line 6

Does anyone know whats happening here? I've tried everything, but it doesnt want to work properly. I'm almost becoming nuts.
Thanks in advance

Baki

examancer

if you want input from test.php?input=something to be turned into the variable $input, you must turn on register globals. Or, you could access the variable through the superglobal arrays since the "register globals" feature is a little insecure, so instead of using $input to get at the variable, you would use $GET['input'] where input is the name of the variable sent through the url. This only works for GET variables (ones sent through the url), and if input is sent through a POST form, you have to access it through $POST['input'].

hope that helps.

baki

Thanks examancer,

i've tried out your examples and it works fine now.Thank you. There is just one problem that I dont understand.
If I type something like

echo "$_GET['input']"

it wont work. When using

echo "$_GET[input]"

without quotes it works.
But if want to assign local variables like ex.:

$var=$_GET['input']

it just works with quotes.
Do you know what is the reason for that.

THANK YOU for your advise,

baki