I'm new to PHP,MYSQL, etc. Having some success when IIS 5.0 broke. Uninstalled, reinstalled and thought I was back in business. Pages that worked before now pass empty variables. I tried the following code just to make sure and it's empty also.
test1.html
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method=GET ACTION="test1.php">
Who is your favorite author?
<Input Name="Author" Type="text">
<br>
<br>
<Input TYPE=SUBMIT>
</form>
</body>
Test1.php
<head>
</head>
<body>
Your favorite author is:
<?php
echo $Author;
?>
</body>
Your favorite author is:
I have reset the ISAPI filter and extension mappings in IIS. I'm not against doing some research, but a hint would be deeply appreciated.