Newbie: Forms, PHP4, Apache2

Anon

Hi,

I have just gotten started using PHP on my linux machine (redhat 7.2, gcc 3.0.4).  I downloaded and compiled the latest versions of Apache (2.0.36) and PHP (4.2.1).  When configuring Apache, I used only the flag --enable-module=so and when configuring PHP used the flag --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs Now, most php stuff seems to work fine, but for some reason when I make a page that is supposed to use forms to pass information to another php page (on my server) the second page doesn't get the information.  For instance if the first page has a text input called "hello" and the user enters "hi" then submits it to the second page, the second page won't print anyting when I say: <?php echo $hello; ?> Does anyone have any idea what's going on?  TIA,

                    -Ian-

cornelalexa

try using the <?php echo $GET['hello'] ?>.
If yor form use the post method the $POST instead of GET.

register_globals=on in your php.ini will solve your problem,but is not recommended.

Bye.

Anon

Thanks! Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between post and get?

cornelalexa

When the GET method is used you can see the query url with all the values in the browser address text box.If you see now at the top of your browser you found something like read.php3?num=1&id=140069&thread=140065.Those are submited by the Get method.The anchors <A> always submit data via the Get method.

The POST method can be used only from the FROMS and can be seen.Also you can send much more data then via GET wich is somehow limited.