My Short Variable is not working

Hi all, I am a PHP newbie using WAMP5 version 1.1 I have tried coding PHP and I see it as very interesting and fascinating. however, I have a challenge: My short variables e.g "$names", "$email" are not working when I use "echo" command with it, except I use "echo $_POST[fieldname]". meanwhile, I set the "global_registers = On" in my php.ini file but the story is the same. Is there something else I have not done, pls help I am getting to LOVE PHP and MYSQL. Thanks. For instance, This small html code "accept_name.html" is suppose to accept fieldnames and pass to "process_names.php". <html><head><title>.::.Testing PHP Script.::.</title> <body> <form action="process_names.php" method="post" name="testvar" id="testvar"> <p align="center"><font color="#000066" size="6" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>We might want to contact you soon....</strong></font></p> <table width="52%" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><center> <p>&nbsp;</p> </center></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13%"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS">Names:</font></td> <td width="87%"><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS"> <input name="names" type="text" id="names2" size="50"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS">E-mail:</font></td> <td><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS"> <input name="email" type="text" id="email2" size="50"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;</font></td> <td><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS">&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><center> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS"> </font> </center></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><center> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit &gt;&gt;"> <input name="reset" type="reset" id="reset2" value="Reset"> </font></center></td> </tr> </table> </form> <p>&nbsp;</p> </body> </head> </html> The code below is "process_names.php" which is suppose to echo the $name and $email address. <html><head><title>.::.Processing your records.::.</title><body> <form action="" method="post" name="testvar" id="testvar"> <table width="75%" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><center> <h1><font color="#993300" size="4" face="Trebuchet MS"><strong>Thanks for checking this site, please come again</strong></font> </h1> </center></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13%"><strong>Names:</strong></td> <td width="87%"><center> <?php echo $names ?> </center></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>E-mail:</strong></td> <td><center> <?php echo $email ?> </center></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><center> <a href="accept_name.php"><strong>Done</strong></a> </center></td> </tr> </table> </form> </body></head></html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFOLABI, O. Richard (0803 284 8974) Executive Director InfoTech Corps, Katsina State, Nigeria. richardesquire@yahoo.com http://projects.takingitglobal.org/infoTech --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page