Silly form problem

[salman]

Hello,

I wasn't a newbie but since I haven't used PHP in a LONG time I guess I've become on again! 🙂

Anyways, I was trying to create a SIMPLE form and use a php script to process it. For now, I'm just trying to print out the values in the variables with something like "print $type" and print "$aptID" which are the names assigned in the html form. But I get blanks in the php scripts. The ONLY way I can print out the values is if I use $HTTP_POST_VARS. Can somebody please help me with this so I can move on to the actual coding! Thanks.

Salman

[edwardsbc]

This is expected behaviour in recent versions of PHP.

Please visit: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

You can get old PHP behaviour by changing register_globals in your PHP.INI file. But you'd be better off using the new predefined constructs (see link). NEVER trust user input. Test it for validity!

[salman]

Ok I read the info. Thanks for your reply.