Problem Accessing Parameters in the URL

[link102]

Hey All,

I know this will seem like a dumb question, but I haven't found a solution in the forums or Google yet.

Here is a simplified version of what is happening:

I have a URL:
demo.php?name=jeff

Inside the file I have the line:

<?
echo "Name = ($jeff)";
?>

(I have tried using <?php ?> tags as well) Everytime I load the page, it prints

"Name = ()"

This works fine for me on my other machine. Both are running Windows XP, PHP 5.x, Apache 2.x, and MySQL 4.x. I know that PHP is installed correctly since I can access MySQL and invoke all PHP functions that I've tried. I have been using PHP for years (at a novice level at best) and never had problems accessing variables from the URL this way.

The only difference I can think of between the two machines is that the one where it works has only one user and the one that doesn't has several users and this resulted in a slight installation difference to put PHP in the classpath, but as I said, PHP is working on both machines, which is so puzzling.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

~ Jeff

[devinemke]

change this:

echo "Name = ($jeff)";

to this:

echo 'Name = (' . $_GET['name'] . ')';

[rincewind456]

echo "Name = ".$_GET['name'];

or

echo "Name = ".$_REQUEST['name'];

[link102]

Thanks, that got it!