Somthing is MESSED UP? Help!

djsuds

😕

I have two identical PHP files. On one server it WON'T pass variables at all. and I tested it out on another server at it works.

WHY?!

One that doesn't work ->

http://www.espositoandsons.com/development/contact.html

And my test page on a diferent server that does work ->
http://www.monarda.net/test/contact.html

Can anyone help?

AQHost

Hi,

It might help us to solve this if you pasted the relevant code from contact.php that extracts the variables and manipulates them. Without that it's kinda hard to diagnose...

Best wishes,
Simon.

djsuds

<?php

print "hello world";
print $get_quote;
print $send_button;
print $message;
print "$message";

if ($send_button == "Send Message"){
print "Thank you for your e-mail";
}

if ($get_quote == "Get Quote"){
print "Thank you for your Quote Request";
}

Nothing fancy yet.. it's just that this works on one server and not the other.. and I'm wondering what the problem is.. it's my friend's server, and he has just installed PHP, did he do somthing wrong?

It doesn't pass variables with POST or GET..

AQHost

Hi,

Thanks for the code. I suspect the "problem" on the non-functioning server is that register_globals is set to off. Set the method for the forms to POST and then try the following code instead:

<?php 

print "hello world"; 
print $_POST[get_quote]; 
print $_POST[send_button]; 
print $_POST[message]; 

if ($_POST[send_button] == "Send Message"){ 
print "Thank you for your e-mail"; 
} 

if ($_POST[get_quote] == "Get Quote"){ 
print "Thank you for your Quote Request"; 
} 

?>

Best wishes,
Simon.

djsuds

my friend runs the server... how do you change that setting?

AQHost

Hi,

It's in php.ini - should be changed to...

register_globals = on

...if you want to access variables as you were doing originally, but personally I'd recommend leaving it off if possible and writing your code to access $POST and $GET to grab variable names. More secure that way.

Did the code work?

Best wishes,
Simon.

djsuds

thanks 🙂

djsuds

how do you do it on a solaris system?

djsuds

is there anyway you can do it via code so it doesn't mater if it's post or get?

djsuds

YAY! thanks for all your help.. problem resolved 🙂