Re: Clarification on PHP

your question was just answered. To "Clarify": PHP books take time to write and PHP has changed its default behaviour around a year ago. In other words - you're reading outdated books. Also, on page http://www.php.net/support.php there are a few ways to get the help. Particularly, I advise you to read the official manual and subscribe to PHP general mailing list. -- Maxim Maletsky maxim@php.net On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:40:58 -0500 "Leow Ellen" <dreamer17@email.com> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > In PHP books, most use codes such as if ($engine == 2) for example to retrieve data from client ..... > > in my case, using just if($engine == 2) on my localhost, it cannot retrieve data ....so i use if ($_POST[engine] == 2) it works... > > i am puzzled....can u please kindly clarify?? > > Do I have to state $_POST(...) everytime if i need to retrieve data from client? > > Regards > Ellen > -- > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > Meet Singles > http://corp.mail.com/lavalife >