new to php/apache, please help!

[Aaronofthebay]

Hi,

I wrote the following simple php script called welcome.php

<?php
if ($name){
echo "Welcome to php, $name <br>";
}
else {
echo "Welcome to php, stranger <br>";
};

?>

when I ran it using http://localhost/welcome.php?name=aaron

the result was always "Welcome to php, stranger", while it was supposed to be "Welcome to php, aaron".

I am wondering what I did wrong....

It appears that the apache server did not pass the name=value string to the php module.

Really appreciate it if you would let me know how to solve this problem. I am running Apache2 on a linux box with PHP4 installed.

Thanks,

Aaron

😕

[nootropil]

Try $_GET["name"] instead $name in if clause.