First Questions

Hey *, I am new to this list and have a few questions. I am trying to convince my company to use Linux, Linux, Linux. Right now we have a site that uses IIS and ASP and during my lunch I am converting it to PHP and PostgreSQL/MySQL. I found a strange situation that I could use some help on. Here is a very simple page that shows what happens: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <html> <head> <title>Auth User</title> <head> <body> <? if ($_POST['uname'] != "") { $user = $_POST['uname']; echo "\$user = $user<br>"; $pwd = $_POST['pass']; echo "\$pwd = $pwd<br>"; } ?> <form method="post" action="authuser.php"> <table><tr><td>User Name: <input type="text" name="uname"></td></tr> <tr><td>Password: <input type="password" name="pass"></td></tr> <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit1" value="Submit"></td></tr> </table> </form> </body> </html> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you open this page up and put in jim for the user and jim for the password and hit submit, the page shows the output of the form vars. However, if you use jim for the username and <jim> for the password (<,> are part of the password) then the password does not show up. What am I missing? does PHP do something else with the posted data depending on its content? Thanks for any help, Jim Drabb -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away ------------------------------------------------------------- James Drabb JR Programmer Analyst Darden Restaurants Business Systems JDrabb@Darden.com JDrabb@cfl.rr.com