undeclared vars

[aaronad]

I installed php on my home pc (winXP PRO) and every time I load a page where i check to see if a variable has been passed without initializing it I get an error. When I use this style of coding on my hosting account online it works fine.

For example:
If my page starts like this I get an error saying undeclared variable or something similar.

if($some_var)
print "Some reaction";

Any ideas? Maybe something in the php.ini file I can change?

Thanks,
aaron

[stolzyboy]

well most likely register_globals is off, you can either turn it on in your php.ini, which i wouldn't, or you can access your vars like

for get method // ie querystring use:

$_GET['variable']

or

for post method

$_POST['variable']

[sabbagh]

you can use this variables without initialization but if you don't want to see these warnings you need to change a parameter in your php.ini.

Also you can use
if(isset($var1))
to see if the variable exists.

And you must change the error reporting paramenter to avoid the warnings
May be you have
error_reporting = E_ALL

try
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

I hope this helps!

Jose Garcia Sabbagh
Mexico City