[Resolved] [Resolved] GET and POST problems - NOT register globals

lazylinepainter

Hi all,

I am really struggling of recent while trying to get PHP, Apache and mySQL on my Mac OS X.

I have recently downloaded and installed the packages from www.entropy.ch and finally have GD/image support working.

Now my problem is that no reference to the GET or POST values in a query string work!?! I am totally confused as to whether this is a Unix setup i;ve done wrong or i'm missing something in the php.ini. I am completely new to a Unix environment so please help me out if you can!

I use

$HTTP_GET_VARS['get_var']

and

$HTTP_POST_VARS['post_var']

and register globals is OFF.

I'm completely confused here, please any help and i will be most grateful.

Thanks,
Stuart 🙂

bubblenut

Try using $GET and $POST, these are the "superglobals" arrays and are always available.

laserlight

What version of PHP are you using?
What about the version of Apache?

Provide the smallest and simplest PHP script that demonstrates the problem that you experience.
Note that modern convention is to use the $GET and $POST superglobal arrays in place of $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS

jonno946

What PHP version are you running?

try

$_POST['var']

$_GET['var']

Jonno

lazylinepainter

hi,

sorry i forgot to include my platform,

Apache 1.3.27 with PHP 5

is $GET and $POST the way to go? i thought it was best to use $HTTP_GET_VARS etc?!?

i will try that real quick!

A simple script i tried was:

<?php

$name = $HTTP_GET_VARS['name'];

echo $name;

?>

this didn't print anything! I apologise if the solution is obvious!

Thanks,
Stuart🙂

bubblenut

Err... three people have told you the answer, you even mentioned it in your post. I'm not sure what else we can do for you. The long names are deprecated and in PHP5 you have to explicitly set in your php.ini that you want to be able to use them.

laserlight

is $GET and $POST the way to go? i thought it was best to use $HTTP_GET_VARS etc?!?

No, $GET and $POST and the other $_* superglobal arrays should be used nowadays, especially since you're using PHP5.

Try this:

<?php
if (!empty($_GET['name'])) {
	echo $_GET['name'];
} else {
	echo '<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?name=value">name/value pair</a>';
}
?>

jonno946

This may be of assistance:

Since PHP 4.1.0, the preferred method for retrieving external variables is with the superglobals mentioned below. Before this time, people relied on either register_globals or the long predefined PHP arrays ($HTTP*VARS). As of PHP 5.0.0, the long PHP predefined variable arrays may be disabled with the register_long_arrays directive.

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

Jonno