RE: [PHP] Pulling variables from a URL

If you are using the variable $username as a variable variable type thing.. like you don't know what username is going to be each time... Use double quotes: $_GET["$username"]; that will make PHP interpolate the variable and use whatever value $username is as the name of the $_GET var. Single quotes ''' tells PHP 'take the $tring as is and don't interpolate anything' you HAVE to do that.. you can't do... if you have the register_globals directive on for example ${$username}.. no no no. Doesn't like that. double quotes say "interpolate $variables". However I have discovered (at least in php 4.2.3) that you cannot use subarrays in double quotes like "my var in the subarray subarray: $array['subarray']['subarray']" That doesn't seem to work.. it comes up blank. Carl Furst -----Original Message----- From: Frank Tudor [mailto:frank_tudor@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:16 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Pulling variables from a URL I have a URL including variables... It looks like this: http://registration.php?username=111111&email=test@test.com But I can't pullit into the next page's form Here is what is in the form and other things I have tried: $username = $_HTTP_POST_VARS['username']; echo $_GET['$username']; echo $_POST['$username']; This page sumbits with PHP_SELF if that helps with this puzzle. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Also I do have an include file that looks for session information but Ihave disabled it to see if I can pass variables. Frank __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php