Hi all, I'm new to php and need some help....

wwwkianoushcom

Hi thanks for helping (if you can)

I have OSX on a mac and testing .php on the server that comes with it. I don't know much about php and have a book to help me out at the moment. I'm used to html and have no problems there, it's just the php stuff that's got me stumped.

Here is the problem...

I am doing a test via this:

And this is the .php page:
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test | subform.php</title>
<body>
<?php

print "Action = Please put me on the kianoush.com mailing list<br>\n";
print "Name = $Name<br>\n";
print "Email = $Email<br>\n";
print "Location = $Location<br>\n";

?>
</body>
</html>

Is there anything wrong with any of this? the output I'm getting isn't what it should be, all I'm getting is:

Action = Please put me on the kianoush.com mailing list
Name =
Email =
Location =

and nothing else

What am I doing wrong?!?!

Cheers in advance guys

Kia.

dspeer

You're PHP is good and it works fine...
I think the issue may be with your server. I copied and pasted your files and they worked on my Linux Apache server. Have you tried switching the method to GET?

stolzyboy

instead of $variable, try $_POST[variable]

wwwkianoushcom

Originally posted by dspeer
You're PHP is good and it works fine...
I think the issue may be with your server. I copied and pasted your files and they worked on my Linux Apache server. Have you tried switching the method to GET?

Cool, thanks for doing that.

But when I do the test.php on my browser the 'get feature says it's on.

Click Here to check...

or am I look ing in the wron place?!?

Thank again

wwwkianoushcom

Originally posted by stolzyboy
instead of $variable, try $_POST[variable]

Ok that worked....

I gotta get more into it I think to understand whay that worked and the other didn't

???

stolzyboy

the reason that $variable didn't work is that register_globals is off

dspeer

Correct me if I'm wrong here but setting register_globals to on will allow your HTML variables to automatically become PHP variables when using post or get.

stolzyboy

not to my understanding, with register_globals, that only makes a difference for whether you use a $, $_POST, or sometimes $HTTP_POST_VARS, that is the only difference i have encountered when register_globals is different on servers

wwwkianoushcom

OK, OK, OK

Now your both confuuuuuuzing me!!! :eek: lolololol

One question?

How the hell do you turn this stuff on and off??? 😕 😕 😕 (the think you're talking about that is)

Kia.

stolzyboy

to turn register_globals on and off, you need to find your php.ini file and find the line that says either

register_globals = on or register_globals = off

but since it is working for you with $_POST, leave it alone, that just means that register_globals is off, no big deal

wwwkianoushcom

Originally posted by stolzyboy
to turn register_globals on and off, you need to find your php.ini file and find the line that says either

register_globals = on or register_globals = off

but since it is working for you with $_POST, leave it alone, that just means that register_globals is off, no big deal

I don't have any .ini files (I don't think anyway)

Reason = I'm on Mac OSX

I'm looking into it at the moment to see how it's done.

stolzyboy

it is probably residing somewhere in your apache folder, i have mac osx at home and i have a php.ini file, you may find it easier to find it with the terminal, this is much like command line thru linux

feldon23

Your safest bet is to standardize all your code on always using $POST['item'] or $GET['item'] depending on the circumstance.

It's not a good practice to always assume that $item will work (as you saw, with register_globals off as they are on many public servers, your script won't work at all) plus this can be a security issue.

Also it's important to note that if you do $_POST[elvis] and in PHP6 they decide to use elvis as a constant, you'll have to rewrite your script. If you use 'elvis' (with the single quotes) no worries.

wwwkianoushcom

Originally posted by stolzyboy
it is probably residing somewhere in your apache folder, i have mac osx at home and i have a php.ini file, you may find it easier to find it with the terminal, this is much like command line thru linux

Could you point me in the right direction again, as I have done a search and can't find the 'php.ini' filr to change the 'register_globals'

Reason for doing this is coz I have a guestbook that I have downloaded and need to test it at local level and I don't fancy changing all the code. :rolleyes:

🙂

feldon23

Even more reason to do everything with $POST['x'] and $GET['x']. The server you run this guestbook on will probably have register_globals switched off and unlike your Mac, you won't be able to go in there and turn it back on!

As for "Rewriting the whole script", there's Find/Search and Replace.

Another possibility is to define these variables at the beginning of your script.

If your script refers to a variable that's retrieved from a POST method form, then at the top of your PHP script, just define everything like:

$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$message=$_POST['message'];

Then you can safely use $name, $email, and $message anywhere in that PHP script (except in user-defined functions).

wwwkianoushcom

OK I found the 'php.ini' file but there is nothing in it. 😕 😕 😕