passing variables

[turbo99]

I have this code snippet. (php and javascript)

<?php echo "<a href=show_cat.php?cat_id='1003' onMouseOver=\"turnOn('nav8')\" onMouseOut=\"turnOff('nav8')\"><img src= \" $nav8off \" name=\"nav8\" width=\"174\" height=\"14\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sports and Adventure\"></a>"; ?>

when I click the link this is the error message I receive

Notice: Undefined variable: cat_id in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\vanillamoon\storybooklane\show_cat.php

I dont know why its not passing the variable info this case cat_id = 1003?

Anyone have suggestions to get this to work?

Thanks in advance
Alex

[elfynmcb]

HI,

I think this is a register_globals thing, as it defaults to off. If you're accessing that variable, $cat_id, exactly like that it should be $_GET["cat_id"] instead of plain old $cat_id.

If you want to change the register_globals to have all passed args (from get/post data) in the global namespace then set register_globals to on in your php.ini.

Elfyn