globals not working

beana

Hi,

I am trying to startup an old PHP application, written in PHP4, on a newly installed Apache server (using Linux,Apache,MySQl,PHP4 All newest versions). i have never set up this environment myself, and it seems like I'm missing something...

I am having trouble with getting the variables sent from POST forms to work, i.e I have a web page form.html with a form with action formscript.php. The values of ariables used in form.html are not available in formscript.php.
I have tried using $_POST["var"] and (as used in the original script) $var in the .php-file. Nothing seems to work.

What am I missing? Guessing it's something very basic...

//beana

newcastle_unite

Have you set register_globals=On in your php.ini file?

beana

no, but I am told I don't have to. Using $GET or $POST should work anyway. Is this true?

newcastle_unite

I've heard that it should work that way, yes, but I've had the same sort of problem as you, and it was solved by setting register_globals to on. Strange.... 😉

beana

I tried making a simple testscript to see if $GET and $POST shouldn't work. It does. There must be something with the old code that isn't right, but I can't figure out what it is. No values are passed from the first page to the script, but everything looks fine to me....

newcastle_unite

It's difficult to say without seeing the code. I don't suppose you cold post your code so that I could have a look?

beana

Hi again,

I just got things going on my end. Turns out I had to change to $_POST and also change the tags in the code.

Thanks for your help!

// beana

beana

Hi again,

I just got things going on my end. Turns out I had to change to $_POST and also change the tags in the code.

Thanks for your help!

// beana