HELP! I can't use post or get method.

[vypergal]

Hi. I am a newbie in PHP. I have just sucessfully installed APACHE 1.3.27, PHP 4.2.3 and MYSQL on my LINUX Redhat 7.2 machine.
When I try to pass variables using "method=post" or "method=get" from a ".html" file to a ".php" file, I can't get any value on the ".*php" file. I have tried using $_POST["val1"] and the equivalent get func but I still can't pass the values over. I have even enabled the global_registers in the "php.ini" file.
Is it due to the ./configure options that i selected during the installation of PHP??
Can someone please advice?
Thanks in advanced!

[archangel_617b]

If you are using register_globals, then you will not need $POST or $GET. It is a good idea to use these arrays instead of register_globals.

If you are not sure where your form variables ended-up, try doing [man]print_r/man to see what is being passed in the post vars like this:

print('<pre>');
print_r($_POST);
print('</pre>');

If you sill cannot locate your form variables, please post a code snippet from your .php file.

[vypergal]

Hi. Thanks for the advice but I am still confused. With i use print_r, apperently the values are passed but I still am not able to manipulate the code.
In this simple program, I am just trying to add the two values.
When I used print_r(), the values
[val1] = 12
[val2] = 15 is shown but in my code I tried to add them up using
$result = $val1 + $val2
But when echo the result, nothing is displayed...
Very puzzled.. Could you please advice? thanks in advanced.

[swjohnson]

<?track_vars?>

at the top of your PHP file.

Here is how I used it...

I have an HTML form that passes parameters to the following php program.

<?track_vars?>
<?php
$msg="Questions answered?\t$found_info\n";
$msg.="Message:\t$message\n\n";

$mailheaders = "From $sender_name\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply to: $sender_email\n\n";
$mailheaders .= "Subject: $sender_subject\n\n";

mail("[e-mail]", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
mail("[e-mail]", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

In the same file immediately following my PHP routine is the HTML thank you page.

Also notice that this routine is sending duplicate messages to me and my partner.

[archangel_617b]

So did you try
$result = $POST['val1'] + $POST['val2'];

? That had better work. If not, can you post a link to where these pages are being run from? Also if you can put up a file which calls [man]phpinfo/man like:

<!-- In a file called phpinfo.php usually, but it doesn't matter -->
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Then that could reveal problems with your installation. That shouldn't be necessary though as the $_POST stuff above really had better work 😛

[vypergal]

Thank you! Got the code working with $_POST['var1']. 🙂