Problem with querystring variables

Helmsberger

Hi,
I'm currently working on porting my website, while moving from my crummy old host who ran a unix machine, to this new company which runs Windows. Most of my site is Ok,
but for some reason, my PHP scripts which use querystring variables don't seem to be passing them on to the script itself.
For example, if I use "display_next_show.php?lang=heb&show=6", and then I plant a couple of lines in the begining of display_next_show.php that echo $lang and $show, they appear to be empty.

Is this some sort of special Windows problem?
(everything else PHP works fine)

Thanx in advance
Helmsberger

ereptur

Sounds to me like your old hosting provider was running with register globals on. This is considered a bad thing. For more information regarding this, check out http://www.php.net/register_globals.

In order to fix it, you will have to take any variables that you pass to your scripts and write the receiving script to look in the appropriate super-global to find the variable. Otherwise, if this your own personal box, you can turn register globals back on, but like I said, this is considered back practice and insecure.

superwormy

Willing to be this is a register_globals issue...

If it is...
RTFM
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

If it's not...
My apologies, I have no idea why it doesn't work.

Oh, and WINDOWS SUCKS! UNIX RULES!

ereptur

now wormy, that was hardly necessary. this is a legitamite question that more and more people are going to run into as hosting providers just now start to update their PHP installations and find this new default option.

granted a simple search on this forum would have turned up several topics regarding this, but some people don't always know what to look for, let alone where to look.

superwormy

:-P

I just think that that question has been asked FAR, FAR too many times.

Plus, he alluded to WIndows being better than *nix :-)

No offense intended Helmsberger, its all in good fun :-)

Helmsberger

First, I'm quite amazed at how quickly it took you respond :p

Second, I know it a FAQ question, I've seen it around, and I'm sorry to nag. But I guess it'll keep coming up. I tried using $_get['lang'] and such, but to no avail.

Lastly, I tried to echo $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"], and got exactly the right query string...
Could you take me that one last step of the way and tell me how can I get that query_string to explode into my variables?
(It's just that it's so late here...) 😃

Thanx

ereptur

I prefer unix of Windows myself, but it's just personal opinion.

As for the $get... it has to be capitalized. All super-globals are capitalized, such as $POST, $GET, $COOKIE, $SESSION, $SERVER, etc...

Helmsberger

Great, I capitalized them and it worked.

I've had two great years of experience with unix, I admit it's kind of an experiment I'm taking on now. Be sure I'll let you know how it works out 🙂