[RESOLVED] Variable not passing correctly

[mrgrammar]

I just started using a new web host and I've run across something that I don't understand. I don't know if this is a limitation on the server or what.

I link to a page with a variable in the URL:

pagename.php?id=5

On the page, I try to display the id.

echo "The ID is: ".$id;

On my previous web hosts, the page would immediately pull the variable $id from the URL. It doesn't seem to be working on my new web host. Is this a server setting or is it something that I'm doing?

[bradgrafelman]

mrgrammar wrote:

Is this a server setting or is it something that I'm doing?

Both. What your code is relying on is register_globals, a directive that has long ago been deprecated due to security exploits this behavior presents.

What you should be doing instead is something like:

echo "The ID is: ".$_GET['id'];

Or, for more robust code:

$id = (isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : '');
echo "The ID is: ".$id;

EDIT: For more information, see: [man]variables.predefined[/man].