PHP not interpretting url variables

Anon

I posted this in the coding board as well since I'm not sure where the problem really is.

Here's the problem, PHP just doesn't want to accept variables passed from a previous page. I thought it may just be from post method forms, so I tried the following test page:

<?
echo ("This is a test to see if variables are being passed.<br>");
echo ("First: ".$first."<br>");
echo ("Second: ".$second."<br>");
?>

Called the page test3.php and typed this for the url:

test3.php?first=1&second=2

Here's the results:

This is a test to see if variables are being passed.
First:
Second:

So, what the heck did I miss? Is there a config --enable that I need to set? I'm using 4.0.6 and used the following setup:

./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.20 --with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-ctype --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-gd-imgstrttf --with-gd --enable-trans-sid --enable-shmop --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-wddx

Very frustrating, any help is greatly appreciated.

-Kevin

Anon

Nevermind, figured it out. Needed to have register_globals set to on in php.ini file. Why it's not natively set the way, who knows.

-Kevin

farzal

There are security reasons I am sure. Also, for example, I have a session enabled site. Users login once and there validity was stored in a session variable, $valid. It made my life a lot easier that register_globals was turned off and users couldn't append http://URL?valid=true

Just my $.02 cents.
Farzal