Re: Variables not working!

On 19 Jan 2004 at 21:43, Kaushan wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to PHP scripting and struggling with the following problem. > > I have two files, an HTML file and a PHP file. > HTML file contains a form with one text field and a submit button. > When a user pressed the submit button, it calls the php file (<form > action="test.php" ...>). > What the php file does is just echo back the text received from html file > to the user again. > Name of the text field is 'fname'. When I used this variable in the php file > (as $fname) it does not contain the value of the text field. Query-string > appended to the url during the submission is also correct. > I checked for all syntax errors, but the codings are perfect. > > Do I have to change php.ini file to fix this problem. > > Could anyone can help me to solve this problem. > > Kaushan > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Hi Kaushan Little bit difficult without seeing the code, but what you are probably sitting with is an issue with globals - depending on your method of submitting (GET or POST)you can try and check one of these two $_POST['fname'] or $_GET['fname'] for the value of the text field. Rory McKinley Nebula Solutions +27 82 857 2391 rorym@nebula.co.za "There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't" (Unknown)