Re: can not get variable value from HTML form

look at this http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php "Emmy Chen" <echen@kuaitech.com> wrote in message news:004501c3019a$bc1749a0$6501a8c0@Kuaitech... > I DON'T have this problem with my development machine until I deploy the > code to the production. > > I am using window XP home edition. I tried both apache-2.0.45 and > apache -1.3.27 with both php-4.3.1 and php-4.3.2. and none of them works. > > the phpinfo(); works fine without any problem. > > but I could not get the variable value from the html FORM. > > the test program is, the link is > http://www.kuaitech.com/test.php > > <HTML> > <?php > $user="GUEST"; > echo ($user); > ?> > <FORM> > Please type your name: <BR> > <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="username"><BR><BR> > <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit"> > </FORM> > You typed: > <?php > echo ($username); > ?> > </HTML> > > As you can see, I can get the value for $user which is defined within the > php code, but I can not get the value for $username from html form. > > Many thanks. > > Emmy >