php configuration

stevesweetland

just a little confused with what iv done here... hope someone may be able to help. recently rebuilt a box, installed php 4.2.2 onto redhat 8.0....

i have a sites which rely, among other things on their forms / posting / http uploads etc. if i post, for example from this form :

<form name="test" action="<? print $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
  <input type="hidden" name="somevariable" value="somevalue">
</form>

when i send this form, i used to be able to refer to the form post variables automatically, IE :

if ($somevariable == "somevalue"){
  $object->dosomething("with $somevariable");
};

or '$HTTP_POST_VARS["somevariable"]' in place of '$somevariable'.

HOWEVER, now, i am only able to use :

if ($_VARS["somevariable"] == "somevalue"){
  $object->dosomething("with ".$_VARS["somevariable"]);
};

which isnt really a problem, i know, but it means that all the sites iv written, which use the first method of referring to post variables (i know, i know, should have done it $_POST to start with)... dont work, basically.

Mordecai

Open php.ini and see if register_globals is on. If not, turn it on.

stevesweetland

yay!!! that did the trick, thanks mate!!!!! 😃 😃 😃

i got another question actually, phpMyAdmin....... looks like its being cached cause i remove a database for example, and it says its still there, ctrl + f5 the page, and it disappears....

any idea what would cause the caching? its not the only thing it does it on, but i often send headers other than the default anyway.

Mordecai

Well, caching is a browser thing, so you could tell your browser not to cache. However, if you want to tell PHP not to cache, you'll have to send a header:
header("Pragma: no-cache");

stevesweetland

ok, cool. cheers fella, ill let ya know how i get on :-)