querystring doesn't seem to work

[Anon]

I have this form on a webpage:

<form action="action.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name">
<input type="submit">
</form>

Why does the following code not read the name in from the querystring?

<?php

echo $name;

?>

I tried changing the form to use GET instead of POST, and even just typing it in manually into the address bar, but PHP doesn't seem to want to print out the name.

Any ideas?

[rrijnders]

Your installation may have <b>register_globals</b> turned off.
(see http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php)

In this case, you probably have <b>track_vars</b> turned on, so you will have to access incoming variables via the appropriate array:

$ENV
$GET
$POST
$COOKIE
$_SERVER.

...or if you are on an older version of php, check the arrays:

$HTTP_GET_VARS
$HTTP_POST_VARS
$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS

-- Rich

[bastien]

<form action="action.php" method="GET">

change it in the form, not in the address bar...

hth

Bastien

[Anon]

Thanks! I just changed the php.ini file and it works now.