passing variables problem

alfta

Greetings,

I have set up PHP and MySQL on my machine for local development. Everything works fine, except for one thing. For some reason, I cannot get the scripts to pass variables from a form using post. I have uploaded the script to my server and it works fine so I am fairly certain the code is correct. I will include the code just in case below.

A bit about my OS:

Windows XP Pro - using IIS 5.1.
PHP 4.3.3

Everything else in PHP seems to function correctly with no problems, just not passing the variables. Here is the code. This is just a test script so it is very basic. It takes the variable (or is supposed to!) and passes it to database002.php

***database.php

<form action="database002.php" method=post>
<input type=text name="bookreq[emailaddy]" size=60> E-mail Address <br>
<input type=reset name="reset" value="Reset">
<input type=submit name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

***database002.php

print ("$bookreq[emailaddy]<br>");

So when I run this script it runs without reporting an error but I get nothing printed. However, when I upload it to my domain host, the script works exactly as it is supposed to.

Is there possibly a setting, either in the php.ini file or in Windows I need to adjust? 😕

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

-Alfta

stolzyboy

most likely your php.ini has register_globals = Off (by default with newer version of PHP), and your host probably has it turned On

alfta

Greetings,

You were correct. I changed it to "On" in the php.ini file but when I open the page I have the php info function on, it still registers as off. Would this be caused by some override on IIS? I tested it just in case, still no passing of the variable.

thanks!

-Alfta

stolzyboy

did you restart IIS

alfta

Yes, still the same result after I restarted.

Blarg

You might get a problem with the variable because it's got [] in it which is generally used for arrays (not sure if PHP overcomes this though).

You'd be better off using something like:

database.php:
<form action="database002.php" method=post>
<input type=text name="bookreq_emailaddy" size=60> E-mail Address <br>
<input type=reset name="reset" value="Reset">
<input type=submit name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

database002.php:

<?php
  // Below is with globals on
  echo $bookreq_emailaddy . "<br>\n";
  // Below is with globals off
  echo $_POST['bookreq_emailaddy'] . "<br>\n";
?>

You should escape PHP variables when possible too.. see above (seperated with the .)
Good luck.. 🙂