Hi there,

I'm trying to set up a simple login page. The script i've written works fine on my server but not on my clients server (hostsave.com - PHP is installed). Basically I get nothing when I check;

$u = $_POST['username'];
$p = $_POST['password'];

echo $u;
echo $p;

So the variables from the login page are not being passed to the verify page. I've also tried it with GET. Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Cheers,

//Kalisan

do a

<?php phpinfo(); ?>


to make sure php is installed.


Never bother to learn something not knowing which does not do you any harm, and never neglect to learn something whose negligence will increase your ignorance

You may have subitted your form by GET method. So you can try
$u=$_GET['username'];

or you can try
$u=$_REQUEST['username'];
(this line will set values sent by either POST or GET)


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Rather than working around the problem by using _REQUEST, I suggest you solve it.

1) Make sure PHP is installed using Gotaka4's method
2) Make sure the form method is POST and the code asks for _POST

It is generally not a good idea to use _REQUEST.

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
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Thanks for the advice guys. I've just been notified by the hosting company that their version of PHP does not support super globals such as $_GLOBALS, $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION! :(

I'm new to PHP and have no idea how to achieve the above without these variables - any pointers?

Cheers,

// Kalisan

hmm....that sucks.
I wonder what ancient PHP they have installed....still do a phpinfo and get some info on the php version they have.

to get around it, doing javascript and php you can acheive the same thing...by getting form values using javascript ( assuming you can do this - not good at javascript), and then entering them in a database using php (mysql), and on the next page, retrieving them from database using php again.........quite a painful process.

tell your hosting company to upgrade their php...it will only take them a few minutes?


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Never bother to learn something not knowing which does not do you any harm, and never neglect to learn something whose negligence will increase your ignorance - Imam Jafar Sadeq

Try $HTTP_POST_VARS then.. and follow Gotaka's suggestion, find out what PHP they have.

And might I recommend switching hosts

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
Where will you be in 100 years?

Snib, why do you say it's generally not a good idea to use $_REQUEST?

$_REQUEST is made of three superglobals combined: $_GET, $_POST and $_FILES. There are sometimes times that you need to access a $_GET index that has the same index name as a $_POST index, so therefore you can't access it.

hth,

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
Where will you be in 100 years?

so what is the $_FILES var? don't know about that.