missing server variable

Jello

Hi. I'm taking my first stab at PHP and MySQL. I keep getting the error "Udefined Index QUERY_STRING" and have discovered that this function is not listed in the PHPINFO() page of my test server. How do I activate or acquire the files for this function. Everything I see says its part of the install. (so confused)

PLEASE HELP!
Thanks.

nnichols

You need to access it through the $SERVER superglobal array -
$SERVER['QUERY_STRING']

This is because with recent versions of PHP the default for register_globals is off (Yippeee!!!).

If you want to code with globals you need to change this in the php.ini but I would advise against it as it is much better coding practice not to use them.

Jello

Thank you, but I tried that already to no avail. $SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] is what I used to produce this lovely error. $SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] is what does not show up in the variables list in PHPINFO() on my test machine. I even tried setting the autoglobals on and used $QUERY_STRING, still got the same error. Do I have a missing DLL or what??? Any advice would be greatly appriciated.

nnichols

What web server are you running?
if apache are you running php as a module or cgi?
what version of PHP?

Jello

NM, got it! its now dynamic-ing like a mofo. 😃

Thank you for helping though.

I'm building a rather large catalog. Is that something you're familiar with?

nnichols

Done one or two. hehe