ok this is weird form help

gte806e

Ok this is the worlds most simple thing here yet its not working what gives?

page1
html tags..
<form action="p2.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="test">
<input type="submit">
</form>

page2
<?php
   print("test text ".$test);
?>

result: test text

no matter what you put into form field

What gives? Why isnt this varible passing over??

LordShryku

May be a register_globals thing. Try

<?php
   print("test text ".$_GET['test']);
?>

gte806e

thats it, how do you get around that? haveing to put $_get[""] for all my variables is alot of unecessary extra coding.

Jesse

LordShryku

Originally posted by drawmack
so you can't turn register globals on with ini_set huh?

well I don't like being told no so here goes
<?php
function reg_globals() {
    foreach($_GET as $curVar) {
        global $$curVar;
        $$curVar = $_GET[$curVar];
    } //end foreach
    foreach($_POST as $curVar) {
        global $$curVar;
        $$curVar = $_POST[$curVar];
    } //end foreach
} //end reg_globals
?>
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gte806e

Thanks man you rock! =)

The_Chancer

Although using the $GET, $POST, $SESSION, $COOKIE, $_SERVER global variables makes things long winded - it increases portability as well as reducing the likely attack of SQL injection, as well as substitution of proper values in your code...

It is turned off by default for security reasons, although it adds to the code, it makes it that much more secure as well as letting you know where the actual variable is from.

Although the code shown below is good, it doesn't cover all of the above - especially if you are used to calling $cookieval for cookies for example - or $sessionval for that matter...