Re: Help!

Check your php.ini. register_globals = off would be your culprit. Check www.php.net/register_globals for instructions on how to use the new "superglobals" ($_POST, $_GET, etc) or change it to on. Restart Apache after you change it. (one more vote for a register_globals email bot...) -Dash One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. -- Mark Ardis On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, paradiddles wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > I successfully installed (locally) the php/mysql/apache bundle called swamp-0.1.1. > > I created my 1st php file that I've attached along w/a very basic .html form that it is > supposed to parse (from the bookPHP and MySQL Web Development by Welling and Thomason). the php file > does not seem to recognize the text passed to PHP's simple echo construct tag. > > When I click the "submit" button on the form, the php file is called up and displays > "Sean's products" and "Order results"...but the text w/in the echo > construct tag "Order processed" does not display. > > I saved both the form and the php file locally in a dir. called www which is in the root of my > swamp directory > > > > Any ideas? > > thanks. > > > > ---------------- > "forget your lust for the rich man's gold. All that you need, is in your soul. You > can do this if you try. All that I want for you my son, is to be satisfied" > > ~ Lynard Skynard > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now