newbie needs help!!!

fowlerlfc

I'm going through the wrox press book titled "beginning php4", and I can't get several exercises working is it the code or is it me? I have an html page the "gets" a php page. Here's the html code (textarea.html):

<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method=get action="textarea.php">
What are your Favorite web sites?
<textarea name="WebSites" cols="50" rows="5">
http://
http://
http://
http://
</textarea>
<br>
<br>
<input type=submit>
</form>
</body>

Here's the php code (textarea.php):

<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
Your favorite web sites are:
<?php
echo $WebSites;
?>
</body>

When I submit data from the html page, I get the text (Your foavorite web sites are🙂 on textarea.php, but the data in the textarea doesn't carry over. However, the data is in the URL.

Any ideas?

Anon

What version of php are you using 4.2?

If so look at:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=139355&loc=0&thread=139355

I am betting you are or that PHP isnt installed correctly (which would be wierd).
If you do have 4.2 try:

<?php

echo _$GET["WebSites"];

?>
Hope this Helps!

fowlerlfc

Thanks for your quick response. I found the problem right after I posted. I had to change the register_global setting in php.ini to on. I saw your warning post right after I posted! Thanks for your response and your post!

lentin64

Try method="post"

Anon

Thats still wont help... read my PHP warning. If you do method=POST you would still have to grab the post variables by saying:

$username = _$POST["username"];

or something like that. Its 4.2.0. Read the link.