How do I change a 4.0.6 code to a 4.2.1 code?

bluelab

I already posted something about this problem in the "newbies" section, but seeing as I'm not getting much feedback, I figured I might as well post the problem here aswell....

I've got a php file which writes an HTML email and sends it... All this was developed and tested on a PHP 4.0.6 server..... But I had to transfer the files over to a PHP 4.2.1 server [my client's server... I can't change the settings in php.ini] ... So everything stopped working... Apparently 4.2 has register_globals turned off by default.

All I need to know is how I can adapt my code to make it work with PHP 4.2... It's a really really simple page... just 5 or 6 variables...
Someone said this:
"the most likely culprit is that your PHP code uses global variables, which broke when upgrading to 4.2. If this is very urgent, you will need to turn on register_globals in your php.ini file to fix the problem. Eventually, you might want to consider redoing your PHP pages to use server variables ($GET, $POST, etc.)."

Can someone tell me how I can "use server variables"?

Thanks....

bluelab

Can someone please please please help!!!

kinadian

It's very simple.

If your form method is GET or you are using the url (ie http://www.someplace.com?var1=yup&var2=nope ) then you can use the $_GET array.

$var1 = $GET['var1'];
$var2 = $GET['var2'];

If your form method is POST then you can use the $_POST array.

$var1 = $POST['var1'];
$var2 = $POST['var2'];

--kinadian

bluelab

thanks a lot kinadian....

One thing though... I just need to know exactly what to do...

The flash file is sending 6 vars to this PHP file.... (using POST)... and there are 2 other vars that are set in the PHP file: the email's content, and the email's headers.....

so following your suggestion, this is what I've done:

$email1 = $_POST['email1']; 
$name = $_POST['name']; 
$from = $_POST['from']; 
$product = $_POST['product']; 
$urllink = $_POST['urllink']; 
$photoUrl = $_POST['photoUrl'];
$msg = $_GET['msg']; 
$headers = $_GET['headers'];

$msg = "MAIL CONTENT... includes $email1, $name, $from, $product, $urllink and $photoUrl";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"=_DM_MIME_BOUNDARY_1\"\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $from \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from>\r\n";


mail("$email1", "SUBJECT", $msg, $headers);

Have I written this correctly? should this work?

kinadian

When you say that the 2 other vars are set in the PHP file do you meanin the .php script file itself?

ie
$msg = "This is the body of my e-mail";
$headers = "This contains my e-mail headers";

Or do you mean that they are set using the URL

http://www.someplace.com/myscript.php?msg=testabove&header=headers

If it's in the URL then you are correct. If it's in the script itself (option 1) then you don't use $msg = $_GET['msg']; You can just use msg how you like.

--kinadian