Re: Passing vars between pages using Apache on my laptop

Em Sex 02 Abr 2004 23:10, Scott E Foulk escreveu: > Aloha, >       I am using Apache on my laptop to emulate my online database and > site and wondering about 2 things: > > 1 - I'm not able to pass variables between pages in PHP >       e.g. On page1.php I have a field named in_company, which, on the > website my client is hosted from passes into the next page as $in_company. > But on my self-configured Apache/PHP/MySQL laptop setup, the variables > come up as undefined on the follwing page. your original server must have been configured with "register_globals=0n" on php.ini and on you laptop it must be set "register_globals=Off" wich is the defalt. setting register_globals on enables you to pass in_company as $in_company, but if it's set off trying to access the value of in_company directly as $in_company will fail. it's because when register_globals is on it automatically assign the value of a passed variable to a variable of the same name in the php script. > The queries with MySQL work > nicely, but not without variable passing.  I don't like to append on to > the URL as some vars I like to keep low profile. >   e.g. > > http://www.mysite.com?var_0=5&var_1=sometext&var_2=morestuff&etc=more > if register_globals is off, this assignment dosn't happen automatically, so you must first do: $in_company = $_GET['in_comany'] or $in_company = $_POST['in_company'] depending on the method you're using. remember that relying on register_globals been set as on is not a good practice. gabriel