register_globals help...

[listenmirndt]

hello,
I am not certain what the problem is -

I have a page like this

<?php

echo $test;

?>

If i visit http://www.mydomain.com/test.php?test=hello

it should print out 'hello'

but it dosnt,

somone has said this had somthing to do with regiser_globals

can anyone advise?

thanks
-Arron

[tsinka]

Hi,

if register_globals is set to on then use $GET['var'] or $POST['var'] instead of $var.

In your case:

echo $_GET['test'];

Or to make sure that no warnings are shown:

if (isset($_GET['test']))
  echo $_GET['test'];

Thomas