can't pass variables

[ned_perry]

Hi

I'm very new to PHP and have just installed Apache and PHP on a windows 98SE machine. I can run PHP scripts, and I can even query a MySQL database, but for some reason I can't pass any variables into my PHP scripts either from html or flash.....

When I run a simple script like (name.php):
<?
echo "your name is: " . $name;
?>

calling it with:

http://localhost/name.php?name=steve

it simply returns "your name is: "

I've tried sending variables with lots of other scripts as well but without success. There's no problem accessing variables from PHP but I simply can't send any variables in.

Any ideas, thoughts would be much appreciated..I'm desperate..

Cheers

Ned

[stolzyboy]

instead of $name, use $GET['name'], if you are posting with get and use $POST['name'] if you are using post, if one of these solves your problem, then register_globals is off in your php.ini which is usually located in C:\WINDOWS on a windows 98 box, you can turn this on by just setting it to on and restarting apache, but i would leave it off for security reasons

[ned_perry]

Thanks

That was exactly the problem. I've fixed it by resetting my php.ini file. It works great now

Ned