[RESOLVED] I need help with POST and GET on simple form

ilopan

I need help with a form I have always used that always worked, but the client's web hosting service turned off global variables, so my form is submitting with the fields blank. They said: modify the form(s) to use $POST and $GET to access their variables. But I don't know where to put them. I experimented with the code to no resolve. So below is my original code that works with global variables. Can someone please help me and tell me where to put the POST and GET? Thank you!

Original Code:

<?
$recipient="xxxxxx@xxxxx.com";
$HTTP_POST_VARS["realname"];
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");

$subject = "Online information request from ".$HTTP_POST_VARS["realname"];
$message = " An information request was sent from: \n name = ".$realname." \n address = ".$Address." \n city = ".$City." \n state = ".$State." \n zip = ".$Zip." \n email = ".$Email." \n phone = ".$Phone." \n retailers restaurants = ".$RetailersRestaurants." \n suggestions = ".$suggestions;

mail($recipient, "$subject", $message, "From: InformationRequest@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
echo "<p><b>Thank you! Your request was sucessfully sent!</b></p>";

bpat1434

My guess would be that you need to change the following:

Current Incarnation => What you should be using
$HTTP_POST_VARS['realname'] => $_POST['realname']
$realname => $_POST['realname']
$Address => $_POST['Address']
$City => $_POST['City']
$State => $_POST['State']
$Zip => $_POST['Zip']
$Email => $_POST['Email']
$Phone => $_POST['Phone']
$RetailersRestaurants => $_POST['RetailersRestaurants']
$suggestions => $_POST['suggestions']
$SERVER_NAME => $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']

Hope that helps.

bradgrafelman

Your host company is at least somewhat intelligent - register_globals presents security risks.

Anyway, here's an example of code using register_globals:

<?php

echo "You just posted your name, " . $name . "!";

// versus

echo "You just posted your name, " . $_POST['name'] . "!";

?>

Also note that I used the full "<?php" tag versus the short tag "<?". You might want to make this change in your scripts as well - short tags, like register_globals, are deprecated.

For more information on $POST, $COOKIE, $SESSION, $GET, etc., see this man page: [man]variables.predefined[/man].

EDIT: Blah... bpat beat me to it. I type too slowly 🙁

ilopan

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. You have all been the greatest help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bradgrafelman

Glad we could help. Don't forget to mark this thread resolved.

Houdini

Off Topic, now my senility is clearing up bpat1434 had the frog and changed it, sorry Brad.