Re: PHP Variables?

Thanks to everyone that replied. Sorry if this was posted in the wrong group. For some reason I was thinking peer not pear. To be perfectly honest, I don't know what pear is! Is there a group for beginners questions that I should be posting to? Thanks, Mike "Mike" <mlavelle@attbi.com> wrote in message news:20030211193653.92083.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Newbie here with a question, > > My web host is running PHP 4.2.3 and I am running PHP 4.3.0 locally. > Whenever I try to test a page that accepts variables (either from a form or > by attaching them to the URL when calling the .php page) I get errors saying > that the variables are 'undefined'. However, if I upload the same code to my > web host it works fine. > > Did something change in 4.3.0? Am I missing something? I'd like to be able > to code and test the pages locally without having to upload them everytime I > want to test them. > > I am running PHP against IIS 5 on WinXP, the web host is using Apache. The > code is listed below. > > Thanks for any help. > > <html> > <head> > <title>Conditionals</title> > <link href="./style/styles.css" type="text/css" > rel="stylesheet"> > </head> > > <body> > <table bgcolor="#9999cc" width="100%" height="100"> > <tr> > <td><a > href="http://www.php.net/"><img > src="images/php_logo.gif" > border="0"/></a></td> > </tr> > </table> > <?php > /* $Quantity must be passed to this page from a form or via the URL. > $Discount is optional */ > $Cost = 2000.00; > $Tax = 0.06; > if (isset($Quantity)){ print ("No value passed");} > if ($Quantity) { > $Quantity = abs($Quantity); > $Discount = abs($Discount); > $Tax++; // Tax is now worth 1.06 > $TotalCost = (($Cost * $Quantity) - $Discount) * $Tax; > $Payments = round($TotalCost, 2) / 12; > // Print the results > print ("You requested to purchase $Quantity widget(s) at \$$Cost > each.\n<p>"); > print ("The total with tax, minus your \$$Discount, comes to $"); > printf("%01.2f", $TotalCost); > print (".\n<p>You may purchase the widget(s) in 12 monthly installments of > $"); > printf("%01.2f", $Payments); > print (" each.\n<p>"); > } > ?> > </body> > </html> > >