Problem for 'HTTP_GET_VARS'!!!

Anon

when i run display.php3 ,i receive a errer
message😛arse errer in line 35,
line 35 in display.php3 is: $dbname=HTTP_GET_VARS['dbname'];
all 'HTTP_GET_VARS' in my file cause a Parse errer. i don't know why??
please help me!!!!!

Anon

HTTP_GET_VARS isn't the variable name, it's $HTTP_GET_VARS (you need the dollar sign).

You might want to add <?php_track_vars?> at the first line of the script too, just in case.

Mike

Anon

oh,my god!
i forgot.
thank you Mike ,you give me a big help!

Anon

You might want to add <?php_track_vars?> at the first line of the script
too, just in case.

Uhh, I thought the array $HTTP_GET_VARS exists regardless of the setting
of php_track_vars, that what this controls is the automatic creation of the
individual variables from the Get/Post variables. I.e. if the URL says:

/test.php?item=1

then if php_track_vars is on, PHP automatically creates $item with a value of 1.
But the master array is there in any case.

Anon

Okay, normally $HTTP_GET_VARS (and POST and COOKIE equivalents) is created for any script.

However some PHP hosts, for reasons best known to themselves, disable these arrays by setting track_vars = off in the php3.ini file.

Starting your script with <?php_track_vars?> will override the track_vars setting in the ini file and make $HTTP_GET_VARS availiable again.

Mike

Anon

I just discovered something regarding $HTTP_GET_VARS. Hope this helps.

Ok. This the scenario. I have an anchor tag on a page with a query string "threadID=2":

<a href="page2.php?threadID=2">...</a> say.

Also on the same page, I have a variable $threadID. For some reason, when I do
<? print "$HTTP_GET_VARS[threadID]"; ?> on page2.php, it returns nothing.

So I changed the query string name to something else, eg:

<a href="page2.php?n_threadID=2">...</a>
And <? print "$HTTP_GET_VARS[n_threadID]"; ?>
works perfectly!!!

Moral of the story: "Play safe! Make all variables unique where possible!"