[RESOLVED] $_GET issues

hysterix

hello everybody, if anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated!!

Anywhoo, I am having issues with the superglobal array $_GET['whatevervariable'], in that I cant retrieve the variable.

Basically I am making my website for my class project, and have got most of it going. I am coding the administrative side to the site, and what I'm doing right now in perticular is viewing all the users in a query. I have that going, but I am sproocing it up, in that instead of all the users viewed in one long big page, but break it up into smaller pages so its just more managable. I am using the $GET superglobal array to accomplish this, but I am finding I can't get php to see any of the $GET variables.

So I decided, hey, forget this for a second, just make some example crappy forms using the get method and just throw some variables back and forth to see it happening. And low and behold I can't, I can't even make a little form submit using the $_GET array, because I can't see any of those variables there, even though I can PHYSICALLY see the variables in the submitted url, along with their respective variable names. So they are there, its just php isn't grabbing it. Anyways here is the code I'm working with.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
      <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
<?php
    $quantity = $_GET["quantity"];
    $item = $_GET["item"];

echo "Your a newb, here is why! $quantity, $item, see!?!?!?";
 ?>
  <form  method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
  Item<input name="item" type="text" />
  Quantity<input name="quantity" type="text" />
  <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
  </body>
 </html>

I have also tried the variable in these different formats as well:
$GET['quantity'];
$GET[quantity];
$REQUEST['quantity'];
$REQUEST["quantity"];

and still no luck, basically it just prints the message, "Your a newb, here is why! , see?!?!?!"

without any of the variables in there, meaning php is not seeing any of them.

I hope I have been detailed enough in explaining the issue, and if anyone needs more info, I'll be sure to answer it.

Thank you very much in advanced! 🆒

Edit - Here is the url I get when I used Item1 for item, and 400 for amounts

http://localhost/test_get.php?item=Item1&quantity=400&submit=Submit

So you can see, technically the get method worked, its just I can't see the variables. Also please don't tell me to turn register_globals on because
I'm trying to code the more 'secure' method and not use them.

P.S. - just to see if it would have worked I tried turning register_globals on and it still did not work, so that is not it. 🙂

_theworks

Im not really sure but you didnt close your <form> tag. that could be causing problems with your form?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
      <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
<?php
    $quantity = $_GET["quantity"];
    $item = $_GET["item"];

echo "Your a newb, here is why! $quantity, $item, see!?!?!?";
?>
  <form  method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
  Item<input name="item" type="text" />
  Quantity<input name="quantity" type="text" />
  <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form><-------------------------------------------------------------------there.  

</body>
</html>

hysterix

DOH! Nice catch, though I threw it in there and the same thing happens.

Do you, or anyone else happen to know where in the apache and/or php configuration this is delt with?

Maybe my code is fine, but my configuration is wrong??

execute

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that code, and nothing wrong with your configuration, you must see those variables.

I just tested it... it works fine for me.

Weedpacket

I don't expect this is the problem (it would mean something is four years obsolete), but it doesn't hurt to ask: what version of PHP is this? $_GET wasn't introduced until version 4.1.

hysterix

first thing I did when I was getting the problem was save all my data and update to the latest version of apache and php. So both are latest version for win.

Apache - apache_2.0.55-win32-x86-no_ssl
PHP - php-5.1.1-Win32.zip
- pecl-5.1.1-Win32.zip

Anyways to anyone intrested I figured out the problem with much toiling. What happend was my professor is crazy and had us change a configuration in the php.ini file that made it so superglobal $_GET is unavailable! Why she did that I have no clue but I yelled at her about her being crazy and to make sure to change that insanity so later students dont go crazy trying to figure out why they cant see their get array no matter what they do.

Anyways to anyone still reading this....here is the php.ini file code that was messing everything up

; This directive describes the order in which PHP registers GET, POST, Cookie,
; Environment and Built-in variables (G, P, C, E & S respectively, often
; referred to as EGPCS or GPC). Registration is done from left to right, newer
; values override older values.
variables_order = "GPCES"

anyways my insane teacher had us change that setting up there to = "PECS"
so I wasn't getting $_GET, insane huh?

Thanks to all who replied, appreciate it the time a whole bunch!