PHP/CGI troubles on Apache2/Fedora1

[Skorp]

First I must admit that I am a relative newcomer to Linux, so hopefully I'm not asking any really silly questions. I have been googling most fiercely, reading FAQs and trying various things myself, all to no avail.

My problem is this:

I've got Fedora Core 1 (upgraded from RH9) and it would appear that although Apache 2 seems to (mostly) work with PHP/MySQL right out of the box (which is a nice thing IMHO), I CANNOT seem to get any form variables to be passed over to the form handling PHP script.

<form action='form_handle.php'>
<input type=text name='some_input' />
<input type='submit' />
</form>

It gets passed to a dead simple form_handle.php...

<?php
echo("some_input=$some_input");
?>

...which results in $some_input not being set.

If it helps, I also get an error when I tried a similiar perl script to handle that same form, although it gave me an internal 500 error. I haven't really tried to fix that one, as it is the PHP that concerns me right now.

Oh please don't make me go back to PHP running on my old Windows IIS platform. 🙁

Thanks in advance,
Tony

[LordShryku]

Check your [man]register_globals[/man] setting. If it's off, you should be using $GET or $POST, depending on your form method.

[Skorp]

That's it! I remember hearing about that change, but pretty much had forgotten about it (obviously) since both my Windows machine and all the webhosts I've encountered all use PHP <4.3.

Many thanks!

Tony