[Resolved] Variables set in URL is ignored. why?

[rageh]

I Have scipt called headlines.php and in that script I have a variable set in an URL inside it like http://localhost/npublisher/readnews.php?id=$id. when i click the link the variable id is empty. The readnews.php does not have functions. It is simple scripts that reads news from database useing $id but that is empty. What could be the problem? the readnews.pho script is

Please help

<?php
include("dbconfig.php");
require("functions.php");

if ( !$connlink ) die( "Couldn't connect to MySQL" );
echo("<p><b>787 am here... $id --</b></p>");

if (!$id == ""){

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news_contents where n_id = '$id'", $connlink);

echo("<br/>");
echo("<table border='1' width='45%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>\n");
echo("<tr bgcolor='#CCCCCC'>"); 
echo("<td><b>IDs: </b></td>");                                                        
echo("<td><b>News: </b></td>"); 
//echo("<td><b>TimeStamp: </b></td>");
echo("</tr>");
echo("<tr>"); 

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
          $n_id = $row["n_id"];  
		  $news = $row["news"];

    echo("<td>".$n_id."</td>");                                                       
    echo("<td>$news</td>"); 
	//echo("<td>$t_stamp</td>");                                                  
    echo("</tr>");
  }
	echo("</table>");

}

echo("</body>");
echo("</html>");
?>if while

[cgraz]

I don't even have to read your post to know that you probably have register globals set to off.

That means any variables in the url need to be accessed using $_GET

So instead of $id, access it using $_GET['id']

Cgraz

[rageh]

Thank you MCgras. You really helped me. Thanks again.