Re: $HTTP_GET_VARS

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Tuller" <php@ce.anoka.k12.mn.us> To: "php mailing list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: [PHP] $HTTP_GET_VARS > I am following an example in a book and have run into a problem with a > script that I am trying to run under PHP 4.3.0. What I have is a page > that you click on an id number that is from a listing in a database, > and it is supposed to take you to a page to edit that item. I have the > id sent in the url (http://127.0.0.1/asset/editasset.php?id=3) and the > book says to use $HTTP_GET_VARS to take that id Are you using $HTTP_GET_VARS['id']? If it's in a function, then php scopes $HTTP_GET_VARS as a local variable, and thus there's nothing in it. While that's different then most other programming languages, it's how it is in php. If you want to reference the global $HTTP_GET_VARS in a function, then you must 'global' it: function foo() { global $HTTP_GET_VARS; echo "Id is {$HTTP_GET_VARS['id']}<br>\n"; } Now the php developers added a new set of arrays to help with that in 4.1.2 (I think), so use $_GET['id'] which always references the builtin global $_GET array. It's better. i.e. Learn the new way and not the old way ...