Help! Query in URL problem!

atr75

I have Apache and PHP4 running on my WinXP machine. Everything works fine:
web pages are served and php scripts are executed correctly. However I have
run into one small problem. Passing arguments to scripts using queries in
the URL (e.g. index.php?id=test) doesn't seem to work. The example I mention
yields an empty &id variable in index.php instead of $id with value 'test'.

Is there anything I need to configure in Apache to enable this? I have been
combing through the manial, but have not been able to find anything.

Help!

Alberto Tobias

cgraz

to grab the value of variable id from the url, use $_GET['id']

Cgraz

atr75

Thanks, that does indeed work!

Is this $_GET['id'] always necessary? I remember being able to read the value of 'id' by using $id directly...

Alberto

cgraz

$GET is for accessing variables using the GET method.
$POST is for accessing variables using the POST method.

If you want the short way of accesising the variable, just referring to it as $id for example, then in your php.ini file, set Register Globals to On. It's set to off by default.

Cgraz

atr75

That's it!

Thanks once again! Not only for the info bit also for the speed of your replies!

Alberto