Re: POST and GET variables don't work

Try: $_Post[name]; or $HTTP_POST_VARS[name]; In new PHP version, register_globals is set to "off" by default, which is why $name isn't working for you. Although, I'm surprised GET isn't working.... Jen > I've just built PHP from source (4.2.3) on Red Hat Linux 7.2 with > > configure --with-java --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apx > > It's running with Apache 1.3.26 > > PHP work ok, even Java works, but if I try to pass variables from a form > with either POST or GET, the variables don't get through. This is the code > I'm using: > > index.html: > ... > <form action="php.php" method="post"> > Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br> > <input type="submit"> > </form> > ... > > php.php: > > <?php > echo "*"; > echo $name; > echo "*"; > ?> > > The variable $name is always empty. I tried this same scripts on the RPM > version installed with Mandrake 7.2 and it worked fine, so it shouldn't be > the scripts. What could be wrong? Maybe I missed a ./configure option? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Andres