Re: Help please: Unable to get $_POST["variable"]; to work in a form.

Using $_REQUEST["variable"] causes the script to work. Why is this? And, why can I not use $_POST? "David Scott" <dedoleo@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20021210165617.2237.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am going through the introductory tutorial on > http://www.php.net/ and am > stuck on this page: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php > > I have been able to get all of the examples up to this point to work. > > The form is simple: it asks for a text "name", a text "age" and has a submit > button. The information is submitted to action.php. > > Action.php contains this code: > Hi <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>. > You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old. > > I saved action.php as a text file with only the information above. > > When I enter JoeBob into the name field and 27 into the age field, I get > this for output: > Hi > Notice: Undefined index: name in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\action.php on line 1 > . You are > Notice: Undefined index: age in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\action.php on line 2 > years old. > > What can I do to remedy this? > >