Re: How to pass on a variable with a page request

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bruno Tersago wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm a newbie to PHP and I already ran into trouble after the first test. I > was following the article written by Kevin Yank on Webmasterbase. > > When I want to pass along a variable via a page request, things go wrong: > In the HTML file I write: > > <a href="click.php?name=Bruno"> Hi , my name is Bruno </a> > > In the PHP file, I only see > > Welcome, ! > > whereas I expected to see the name appear (invoked by $name). > I can see it in the URL but not in the page. > > Any ideas why? > Oh yes, I use SUSE Linux, Apache 1.3 and PHP4. So far no complaints during > installation. > > -- Bruno > Is register_globals on in php.ini? Does using $HTTP_GET_VARS["name"] work? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>