Form won't post values to PHP/Apache/W2k

Anon

Hope someone's got a clue to what's going. I've been working on a poxy phonebook script for the last 2 weeks. Works like a dream when I upload it to my unix server, so assuming the code's good.

However, when I run the form on my W2k machine (running Apache/PHP/MySQL) the values that should be POSTed to the PHP script using a form never get there. The variables are null when I echo them so I assume this is the case.

The rest of the actions the PHP script is supposed to carry out are all done too. It can connect to a database and pull some stuff off.

It's some sort of system problem - can't find anything else about it in Faq's etc...

Anyone? Anyone?

Anon

Hi,

In the IIS-Management SnapIn you can configure for what methods php.exe should become active (GET, POST etc.) and process php-suffixed files.
Watch there if methods has got the value "All".

Best regards,

King Louie

Anon

But I'm not using IIS - I'm using Apache. I'm assuming that I need to fix sommething like that in the program, but can't find it.

Anon

Sorry for shooting too fast -
does method="get" work? Maybe some code snippet of your script can give clues.
Best regards,

King Louie

Anon

I\'m pretty certain that the PHP code is OK. I have a domain hosted with a service provider and when uploaded it works fine. It\'s just on my local machine that the problem occurs. For testing I\'ve tried to fake a get request by putting

....fubar.php?name=chris

through to it directly in the location bar. Again, on the server it works fine, but on my local machine it doesn\'t. Although I\'m running Apache, MySQL and PHP4 there must be some kind of configuration problem on my home server that is preventing variables from getting into the PHP script through POST and GET commands. So strictly this may be a bit off-topic!

The real nuisance is that I can\'t find the information to fix it anywhere. It looks like I\'m the only one who\'s had this problem so far!

Cheers,

Chris

Anon

Have you set register_globals=on?
If not, try the difference between

echo $name

and

echo $HTTP_GET_VARS["name"]

Same null-output? Then upload a script calling phpinfo() to your remotehost and compare settings listed with the ones on your localhost.
Best regards,

King Louie

Anon

You're a god amongst men. Many thanks for that one. Changed register_globals to on in the PHP.ini file (why couldn't they just have put it in the php directory?) and now it works absolutely fine.

Many thanks!

Ferris