PHP problem

canobi

Dear Forum,

Good day. How is everyone doing? I recently downloaded PHP 4.3.0 for Windows; I believe it's the CGI flavour of the application. I'm running it on XP with IIS. It installed OK and seems to work for the initial tests I did on it just to make sure it was actually preprocessing. However, it doesn't pass variable data between forms. I created a test form file called "testvar1" (in .php and html formats) with the following pertinent attributes:

<b>Name:&nbsp;</b><input type="text" name="name"><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign">

</form>

And the testvar2.php file with the following attributes

<?php

echo "Name: $name<br>\n";

But when I click submit on the first file (testvar1.php), it gives me the following error:
Notice: Undefined variable: name in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\testvar2.php on line 3

I would really like to know what the problem is. Thanks a lot for your anticipated response.

Charles E. O. Ugwuh

stolzyboy

instead of this

echo "Name: $name<br>\n";

try this

echo "Name: $_POST['name']<br>\n";

most likely register_globals is off

canobi

<?php

echo "Yes, you are. Thanks."