403 forbidden

mlotfi

Hi, I got this error when I click in the link, my files are :

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /â€™http://localhost:8888/moviesite.php on this server.

movie1.php :

HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Find my Favorite Movie!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
echo "<a href=’http://localhost:8888/moviesite.php?favmovie=Stripes’>";
echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
echo "</a>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

moviesite.php :

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Movie Site - <?php echo $favmovie ?></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
//delete this line: define (“FAVMOVIE”, “The Life of Brian”);
echo “My favorite movie is “;
echo $favmovie;
echo “<br>”;
$movierate=5;
echo “My movie rating for this movie is: “;
echo $movierate;
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Should this file php.ini be located here :
C:\PHP\BACKUP\php.ini
or I have to move it to C:\PHP\

thank you

trex005

why are you sending to localhost? (whatever computer the person is on)

mlotfi

I changed it the link to :
echo "<a href=moviesite.php?favmovie=Stripes>";
but now I get this :

My favorite movie is
Notice: Undefined variable: favmovie in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\moviesite.php on line 9

My movie rating for this movie is: 5

Why favmovie is undefined ?

bradgrafelman

register_globals is probably set to Off, which is the recommended setting due to security reasons.

You should try looking for the key in the $_GET[] superglobal and verifying its contents, like so:

if(empty($_GET['favmovie'])) {
     $favmovie = '';
} else {
     if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
          $favmovie = addslashes($_GET['favmovie']);
     } else {
          $favmovie = $_GET['favmovie'];
     }
}

Try using that code before you use the variable in your script.