Problems with variables following the filename

[phildman14]

I have Apache 1.3 running on my 2.4 ghz machine with Windows XP. After getting Apache set up I installed and configured PHP4. PHP works fine on my system EXCEPT if I have "echo $data" in "test.php" and use my browser to open "test.php?data=IT WORKED" it wont display anything. PHP cant read the variables after the filename for some random reason and I REALLY need this to work. If anyone has ideas, tips, or solutions your help would be VERY much appreciated! Thanks!

[jburfield]

Fir things first, REGISTER GLOBALS is OFF be default now, that is why you can not just refer to $data and hope for it to work.

Check your php.ini file

If you do this:

$data = $_GET["data"];

print($data);

It will work.

HOWEVER, you can not pass in spaces in a URL, you need to URLENCODE it or something similar.

-- Jason

[tha_mink]

You can set register_globals on in php.ini. or use the hack...

ini_set("register_globals", 1);

at the top of the scripts you need to fix.