_POST, _GET, _REQUEST not working

Thanks for your response Jochem. I realize this is not a DB specific question but this exercise is to get my mysql routines working. I did remove the declaration "global $_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE" but still do not get values. Funny thing, $_SERVER[QUERY_STRING] returns the query string "var1=334343&var2=343434" but $_GET['var1'] or $_REQUEST['var1'] are empty. phpinfo() shows SERVER["argv"] => Array ( [0] => /home/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25/webapps/ip7/WEB-INF/cgi/httptest.php [1] => var2=343434 [2] => var1=334343 ) Very puzzling. Anyone else? -----Original Message----- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:jochem@iamjochem.com] Sent: December 20, 2004 5:53 PM To: Keane, Warren A FIN:EX Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] _POST, _GET, _REQUEST not working Warren wrote: > Hello, > > I am running PHP 4.39 as a CGI under Tomcat 5.025, Linux 2.4.20-31.9. > Configure = './configure' '--with-java=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04' > '--with-servlet=/home/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25' '--with-mysql' > > I cannot get the _GET function or _REQUEST functions to pick up values from they are variables not functions. > a form generating even though I can see the query string values in the URL > as in: > > http://localhost:8080/ip7/httptest.php?var1=212122&var2=343434 > > My HTML is very simple: > > <form > action="http://localhost:8080/ip7/httptest.php" > method="get"> > <input type="text" name="var1"> > <input type="text" name="var2"> > <input type="submit"> > </form> > > The PHP program httptest.php is also very simple: > > <?PHP > global $_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE; all the vars listed above are super globals you don't have to declare them as global - they are everywhere! this may also be the cause of the problem, what happens when you remove this line? also have you tried var_dump() or print_r() on the $_GET/$_POST/etc arrays? ps - not a very DB related question is it? > > if(!empty($_REQUEST['var1'])) { $var1 = $_REQUEST['var1']; } > else { $var1 ='undefined'; } > > if(!empty($_GET['var2'])) { $var2 = $_GET['var2']; } > else $var2 ='undefined'; > > // Various HMTL tags removed for simplicity > echo $var1 > echo $var1 > ?> > > I have tried everything I can think of including using HTML POST instead of > GET, setting register_globals = On/Off. leaving this off is recommended. > > Thanks in advance. >