Hi there guys,
I'm following the steps of the book "Beginning PHP 4", but some things aren't working. In the 3rd chapter, the author makes a checkbox in HTML, named 'choice'. In the PHP file, he simply echo the $choice, without making any variable before. It doesn't work for me and I don't know why.
In order to echo the same variable I have to grab the value of the checkbox ($_POST), attribute it to the variable, and then echo it.
Am I missing something? Or maybe working with the wrong version, 'cause the book is PHP4 and I'm working with PHP5.
Well, hope it's not a drama, 'cause I'm really interested in carry on going with this book :)

Thanx,
Perroud

It may be the globals problem.

It is more safe to use $_POST variable to operate with user input so that's why it is recommended. Just echo $_POST ['choice'].

All $_POST sub-variables, if we can call them like this, are accessible separately (not only as $_POST or $_REQUEST or $GLOBALS array values) depending on a specific switch set in "php.ini". IIRC, in PHP4 has it switched on, but in PHP5 they made it off by default.

So, instead of changing that switch I suggest you simply use the global arrays instead.

Janis

Hello!
I am starting studying php at April 10.
So I want to know beginning and want to do web page.
What can i do ?
How do i study?
At home I indtall aprache server,php 4.5.0 and MySQL.
In my job,I will use php.
So help me to do.


Aye The

thaw

Thanks Janis, I will follow your advise and leave the php.ini alone. I'm fixing up the examples of the book, and it's working. It takes a bit longer, but it's ok. Let's see how it goes :)