Alternative to CGI Scripting???

discofreakboot

Help Me!

I'm new to PHP and I referred to http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/01/48/index2a.html?tw=programming
to begin learning.

That page gave me a sample URL form and PHP script to handle it. I used theses as a reference to create my own beginner-grade page.

Every time I load my page it gives me "Undefined variable."

I copied the sample pages, tried to load them, and it gave me the same errors.

What I'm asking may or may not be a common occurance but I am lost, so please help me.

discofreakboot

Would it help if I gave the following information?

Server: Apache 1.3.33

OS: Windows XP SP2

PHP Module: PHP 5

thorpe

you really should post the code. this could be caused by a few things. maybe you are trying to reference posted variables directly instead of calling them from the $_POST array.

eg;
instead of using;

$_POST['foo'];

you are just using.

$foo;

another thing that might be happening is, your not checking to see if this variable is set.

if (isset($_POST['foo'])) {
  echo $_POST['foo'];
}

im afraid without code, we cant be of much more assistance exept to point you in the right direction.

$_POST
[man]isset[/man]

TimTimTimma

a nice simpler alternative to $GET and $POST is $_REQUEST as it grabs the variable you desire from any user method.

But as stated above, more than likely you are calling a variable that is not set, something also tells me you are running this script from your machine because most scripts will execute regardless of if the variable is set or not, because most hosts disable the fatal/parse error on that little nip. And as a suggestion to you, being new to PHP and all, I would suggest working with versions 4.3.X before moving on to PHP 5.X.X seeing as it was only recently released either alittle over a year ago or almost a year ago, you might come across bugs in that version that might throw you off the learning experience which is very important in landing a good foundation and understanding of the syntax

Drakla

Originally posted by TimTimTimma
a nice simpler alternative to $GET and $POST is $_REQUEST as it grabs the variable you desire from any user method.

True, but know it comes at the price of security. I use $_REQUEST all the time for my own scripts, but if you're doing a professional job and know data is supposed to be coming from a particular source then USE that source, as a malicious user can overwrite the value of a cookie variable by shoving the same one in the GET string.