[Resolved] new php install doesn't GET file.php?foo=bar

[bulmer]

Ok I've installed apache+php about half a dozen times now and I have never seen this before.

When I put in the url http://localhost/file.php?foo=bar the variable $foo does not get set in file.php (ie. echo $foo shows nothing where it should output "bar").

So I have some code which works on several other systems, but on this new system it just ignores anything passed to it from the browser.

Now here is where it gets strange... I install phpmyadmin, it works fine and it sets variables like ?foo=bar all over the place. I can't see that my code is doing anything different from phpmyadmin. And liek I said before, my code works on several other systems without problems.

I'm using apache 1.3.33, php 4.3.10, on Debian testing (apt-getted (apt-got?) yesterday).

What am I missing here?

[Drakla]

You quite rightly don't have register globals set.

To access the variable use $GET['foo'], or if it's in POST data $POST['foo'], if it's in a cookie $COOKIE['foo']. Or if you don't give a monkeys where it's coming from $REQUEST['foo'].

What I suggest you don't do is turn on register globals in php.ini just to make your life 'easier'.

There are functions [man]extract[/man] and [man]import_request_variables[/man] that can be used if you have to.

[bulmer]

Yeah it is exactly as you said, thanks for the help. Must have been a recent change to the config files under debian, the older versions iit wasn't a problem.

Hmmm... I wish I knew about this before, I have a lot of code to change now.

Thanks again for the help.