Having trouble with Form variables

Anon

I am using php 4.2.0 installed using the isapi module with Apache 1.3.24 - php is installed and works correctly with this test:

test.php
Today is <? print strftime("%d/%m/%Y"); ?>

However when I use an HTML form to parse input to php there is no error but the information is not displayed. e.g

Input.html

<HEAD><TITLE>Input</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<form action="output.php">
<input type="text" name="user">
<br>
<textarea name="address" rows="5" cols="40">
</textarea>
</br>
<input type="submit" value="Hit It!">
</form>
</BODY>

Output.php

<HEAD><TITLE>Output</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
print "Welcome <b>$user</b><P>\n\n";
print "Your address is: <P>\n\n<b>$address</b>";
?>
</BODY>

I think this problem has been identified elsewhere, see:
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.bugs&article=6606

Is it a bug or is there a solution? If so could you please help
Thanks
Mark

Anon

Worked it out, php.ini file problem, register_globals was set off
doh!

Anon

Else you could do $_POST['yourformvar']

Anon

I hit this same problem whilst trying to pass variables from an html form to a new page for displaying database results.

I could only get round this using the
$_POST["variablename"] variable and assigning it to another variable on entry to the new page.

I also hit a problem with using $PHP_SELF and have to use $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]

I can only assume these are bugs with PHP since all the tutorials i read say PHP handles variable allocaation automatically.