Beggininng PHP

zarol · January 16th, 2005, 07:10 AM

I have just started reading my first book of PHP. I have installed Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.3.10 (manual install). Apache works and PHPINFO command shows info of PHP in browser. But when I prepare the first form shown in the book the variable is not sent to the .php file. It is not shown in the browser in result. I don't know why it doesn't work.
The index.htm is:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form action="text.php" method=get>
blablablabla
<input type="text" name="something">
<br>
<input type=submit>
</form>
</body>
</html>

and the text.php file is:

<html>
<body>
<?php
echo $something;
?>
</body>
</html>

In result I see only blablablabla in browser

Please, anyone tell me how to install PHP on apache.

Yo

Gotaka4 · January 16th, 2005, 11:26 AM

for the form, do

method = POST

and in text.php

$something = $_POST['something'];

echo $something;

make sure they are in the same folder with the way you are pointing.

zarol · January 17th, 2005, 03:54 AM

Incredible, works. ther was no mention about this in the book. Thanks a lot.

Yo

knight · January 17th, 2005, 04:52 AM

dear
may be ur book was published earlier infact after php 4
register globals directive is off that y u collect ur form
variable via $_get[] or $_post[] and when u r not sure u may
use $_request[] super global array or collection

zarol · January 17th, 2005, 09:39 AM

I see.

Yo

zarol · January 17th, 2005, 09:51 AM

But how to change that, so that i wouldn't have to use $_POST all the time

Yo

zarol · January 18th, 2005, 07:19 AM

Is there any other way to set it globaly, maybe in PHP.INI ?
If there is not, how to define an array, defined in another .php.

Yo

Snib · January 18th, 2005, 05:45 PM

It is generally a good practice not to use register_globals, but if you like you can go into php.ini and look for register_globals and turn it on.

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
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