[Resolved] Quick/easy: Displaying variable on same page - what's wrong?

[bizchris2001]

Hi all, when I first created this PHP page, it worked - now it doesn't ($NewText stays blank). I tried clearing my cookies, cache, and history - any tips? Thanks!

Chris

<form method="post">
Add text: <input type="text" name="NewText" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Refresh">
</form>

Your new text is: <? print $NewText; ?>

[Moonglobe]

RTFM
and STFF

sry but his comes up sooo often...... let me guess, you've switched servers or had your upgraded recently?

[bizchris2001]

Nope - and I also searched through the site and couldn't find a potential answer. I go through a web hosting company, maybe they made a change - what were you thinking the cause might be? Also, any other guesses? Thanks,

Chris

[Moonglobe]

ummm, im sorry, but from what i posted it should have made things clear -- did you even read the second link?

[bizchris2001]

I reread your message twice and both times thought you were talking about the "tired and cynical" when you were talking about the second link 😛 - then I noticed the short urls at the top of your post. I had actually seen the fact about the default now being Off before, but I'll check with my hosting company just to make sure they haven't upgraded anything in the last few hours since the code was working. Any other ideas if this isn't the case, as they don't have any status updates on their support page? Thanks for the help...

Chris

[seby]

bizchris, you must use $POST on servers were globals is not set -- use echo $POST[NewText];

[bizchris2001]

Thanks Seby, but still no love - here's the updated code:

<form method="post">
Add text: <input type="text" name="NewText" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Refresh">
</form>

Your new text is: <? echo $_POST[NewText]; ?>

NewText unfortunately remains blank. Thoughts?

Chris

[seby]

it works for me.. what version of php? do you know if register global is on? if you dont know, put this in a php file and run it: phpinfo();

[BlueMeteor]

need inverted comma: '

<form method="post">
Add text: <input type="text" name="NewText" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Refresh">
</form>

Your new text is: <? echo $_POST['NewText']; ?>

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by BlueMeteor
need inverted comma: '

Yep; like it says in TFM

[bizchris2001]

Woohoo, that did the trick - thanks!!

[jayant]

Marking the thread as 'resolved' is more important than saying "thanks. that solved it"

[bizchris2001]

I clicked the "Mark Resolved" link, it doesn't seem to show that it did anything. Does this show somewhere that I'm missing?

[jayant]

Originally posted by bizchris2001
I clicked the "Mark Resolved" link, it doesn't seem to show that it did anything. Does this show somewhere that I'm missing?

i also had the same problem. told about it to the admin. works at other places 😕