PHP not parsing URL

prslou

Well I got Apache/PHP/MySQL up and running on my local server. I'm just going to be using it for testing. My problem is that I have a page like http://localhost/index.php?page=send, it won't recognize the page=send as a variable. I'm very new to php hosting, I know more about the actual coding. Is there a setting in php.ini? I looked but didn't see anything. Thanks so much in advance! Since many of my pages run off of the URL variables, I need them to work!

EDIT: PHP is version 4.2.3

-Lou

sglane

What variable are you using to access it? Probably $page I'm guessing. Try the following:

echo $_GET["page"];

You have register globals off in php.ini.

This is all just a guess. Hope this helps.

prslou

Ok thanks sounds good...so if I turn register globals on it will work OK then -- I will go try that now...even if it slows it down a little I don't care. I would rather just forget about the $_GET and all that if I can.

sglane

DON"T TURN OFF REGISTER_GLOBALS! Learn how to code the right way and use the GET POST _SERVER

Besides, it's not optional in the next version 😉

prslou

You mean don't turn on? Well...all my scripts are written for register globals and all the WWW servers I use have it on so I've alwas used it. I'm kind of self taught by looking at other people's scripts and they always used register globals, so that's how I got started. I guess I could stop using them. What's the downside to it?

So all my scripts written for register globals won't work? That's ****. A lot of find and replace or hands on recoding... 🙁

sglane

I meant don't turn them ON... thanks. The reason why you don't want to have them on is this. Consider this script:

<?
if (($user == "bob") and ($pass == "secret")) {
   $auth = 1;
} else {
   $auth = 0;
}

if ($auth == 1) echo "You are authorized!";

?>

If I were to pass in xxx.php?auth=1 I would be authorized. Hope this makes sense. You probably will have to rewrite a lot of stuff, but it's all for the better. The register globals thing will no longer be an option with 4.3.x and above. 4.2.x is transitional.