Bizzare Installation Problems

[Anon]

Hi,

I using IIS 5 with PHP 4.2 under winXP. It's a clean installation. After following the instructions from websites/books/install.txt, I managed to install php4.

phpinfo() also runs fine. But some coding doesn't run at all. For example the $http_user_agent (can't remember the exact code) doesn't give me the browser version.

Instead I just got a blank string. But echo "Test"; works fine.

Really pissed me off. If I cannot get it working I think I will stay with asp and jsp.

Thanks for helping.

[Anon]

Ok next time buddy DO NOT USE Vincent for a name. He is a well established person on here. Just to let you know. It tipped me off with IIS and ASP/Jsp. (as far as I know) he doesn't use ASP or JSP. Ok back to your problem. Read your Php.ini file! READ it. You might want to turn on Global Variables. I think thats the problem. Just read through the file itself. It will take a while but you will be glad you did. Thanks!
Ziggs