confused querystring

[garryladd]

ok, i'm really wet behind the ears with PHP -although I have some experience of ecmaScript, vbScript and some programming languages like eifel, pascal

I am using php5 and I'm trying to build a string from a querystring (I have to use a cgi-bin) but I'm failing miserably at even handling the querystring variables

so my url is http://www.mydomain.com/cg-bin/gtime4.php?start=beta0405

gtime4.php

<?php

$start = $_GET["start"];
echo "$start"
?>

but this returns nothing - I have also tried $_REQUEST

please advise

[thorpe]

it should return an error. your missing a closing ;

<?php 

  $start = $_GET["start"];
  echo $start;

?>

and although this wont cause an error, there is absolutely no need to surround variables with quotes.

[garryladd]

the missing semi-colon was a typo I did have this in my script

anyway, I copied the script exactly as thorpe had it

[thorpe]

and? still no joy? your php must be misconfigured somehow. the $_GET array is available by default.

check your php.ini to see if somehow its been disabled. im not on my box so i cant check to see what your looking for, but there might be something in there somewhere.

[garryladd]

I'm not sure what happened but it started to work!

I hate that - I'd rather I knew what I had done to make it work.

Oh hum.

Thanks Thorpe for your help.

GLa