Re: Am I missing something?

Alexander wrote:

They should have data. here's the form code: function write_form() {

        echo "<form method='post' action='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}'>";

        echo "<p>Enter url of large picture: <input type='text' name='picture' />";

        echo "<p>Enter url of thumbnail: <input type='text' name='thumbnail' />";

        echo "<p><input type='submit' value='Add to Database' />";

        echo "</form>";

} I've done everything excatly how my PHP book says to /* i now officially hate all code examples in books, they never work */

The book is probably expecting you to have register_globals enabled. DO NOT ENABLE IT! Instead, read the following and adapt what the book is giving you to work without it. Reasons for not enabling register_globals are also given on this page... http://php.net/register_globals -Stut