Re: newbie question on variables in php

"David Banning" <David@www3.pacific-pages.com> wrote in message news:397DC73C.AA078E2A@www3.pacific-pages.com... > I'm studying a php/mysql package I downloaded called freemed. > I am wondering how a specific variable gets set which is called $db > > I can't see how it gets set anywhere in the program. > I did a grep -a \$db and I got; It can be set in a couple different ways, most likely as a variable from the previous form. If a form is submitted with its ACTION="somedoc.php", all of the data in the controls on the form is parsed by PHP into variables of the same name as the control. Thus, <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="db"> will cause the creation of a variable called $db in the PHP script that the form is submitted to. You can also set variables by using the $GLOBALS array, which contains all the variables in the form of $GLOBALS["variablename"] = variablevalue. -- O.