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jeffgman

I have a question regarding some variables I use with PHP. I am
assuming my provider recently upgraded to PHP 4.3.0 because some of my
variables are no longer working. I have a couple of pages like the
following:

Page one is a form which uses variables like $qty1 and $qty2 which are
inputted by the user. No problem so far. That form loads up page two.
In page two, I am using the following:

But, those values are now blank. This setup used to work, but I am
guessing that with PHP 4.3.0, I can no longer use these. How would I go
about changing the coding that will work in 4.3.0?

Thanks,
Jeff

diego25

Use $POST['qty1'] and $POST['qty2'] instead.

Diego

jeffgman

Where would I use those? I tried to do it like this:

But, it did not seem to work.

jeffgman

Okay, I sort of have this working. Here is what I did.

Page 1:
User enters in data in a form. When submitted, the form uses POST and calls page 2.

Page 2:

Right under the </head> tag, I have the following:

<?php
$qty1 = $POST['qty1'];
$ext1 = $POST['ext1'];
$qty2 = $POST['qty2'];
$ext2 = $POST['ext2'];
$totGC = $POST['totGC'];
$totDols = $POST['totDols'];
$totship = $_POST['totship'];
?>

And, then a little bit down the page I am using hidden tags in another form for those variables like this:

The user enters in some more data into a form which uses POST and when submitted, goes to page 3.

Page 3.

Once again, I am using the following under the </head> tag:

<?php
$qty1 = $POST['qty1'];
$ext1 = $POST['ext1'];
$qty2 = $POST['qty2'];
$ext2 = $POST['ext2'];
$totGC = $POST['totGC'];
$totDols = $POST['totDols'];
$totship = $POST['totship'];
$details = $POST['details'];
$details2 = $_POST['details2'];
?>

And a little bit down I am using hidden fields for another form like this:

The user will enter in some more information into another form, which uses POST, and when submitted goes to page 4.

Page 4
This page is a PHP script to encrypt the data from the previous pages into an e-mail message to me. Here is what that script looks like:

<?
$pgp="/usr/local/bin/gpg";
$user="";
$recp="";

$header="From: ***";

foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value)
{
if($key == "recipient")
{
$recipient = $value;
}elseif($key == "subject")
{
$subject = $value;
}elseif($key == "redirect")
{
$redirect = $value;
}elseif($key == "required")
{
$required = $value;
}elseif($key == "pgp_key")
{
$pgp_key = $value;
}elseif($key == "pgp_local_dir")
{
$pgp_local_dir = $value;
}else
{
$msg .= "$key: $value\n";
}
}
if($required)
{
$required=split(",",$required);
foreach($required as $value)
{
if($$value=="")
{
echo "You must enter the required information!<P>";
echo "Please go back and fill out the form.<BR>";
$goback=1;
}
}
}
if(!$goback)
{
$msg = stripslashes($msg);
$command = 'echo "'.$msg.'" | '.$pgp.' -a --always-trust --batch --no-secmem-warning -e -u "'.$user.'" -r "'.$recp.'"';
$oldhome = getEnv("HOME");
putenv("HOME=***");
$result = exec($command, $encrypted, $errorcode);
putenv("HOME=$oldhome");

$message = implode("\n", $encrypted);
$subject = stripslashes($subject);
mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$header);
if($redirect)
{
	header ("Location: $redirect");
}

}
?>

But, when I get th e-mail, the fields from page 1 and page 2 just show me the variable names and not the data in it. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for any help you can throw my way.

diego25

The problem is here:

You're outputting the string, not the variable.

Diego

jeffgman

You have no idea how long I have been looking at that. Thanks for that quick glance.

One more question, Is my page 4 "register_globals=off" compliant? My hosting provider upgraded to 4.3.0 over the weekend and it killed most of my scripts. He has turned that variable back on, but I would imagine it is better to get my scripts written so that setting can be turned off. I am sure he will upgrade once again in the future, and forget about that setting.

saidbakr

Be sure that your provider when get update to php 4.3, he let Register_Globals=off in php configuration file which in windows called php.ini
So as the previouse replys you should use $post to handle your variables through a form this's as follows,
In the past, you called the data in form element of name qty1
as e.g echo "$qty1"
Now, you will do the same but before you type echo "$qty1" you must type:
$qty1 = $post['qty1']
ofcourse if you used the post method in the form tag
e.g
<form action="myfile.php" action="post">
if you leave method empty or no method, the default well be get
So you will use
$qty1 = $_get['qty1']
😃
I hope this help in addition of the valuable replies from the other freinds.