I am a widows user and when I feed a variable from a form and run the PHP file it gives this message :
Notice: Undefined variable: Number in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\dynamic.php on line 9

But when I tried the same thing in another web server, all things were Ok.
It seems to me that my local host is not configured properly.But I do not know what is missing.
Thank you for any idea.

Please give more specific information , like what version of PHP , what web server , your code , other wise it is not possible to tell what is wrong here . I am giving you two option for doing what you want to do :

(1) For PHP version 4.2.0 or above :
---------------> Script name : test.php <----------------

<?php
echo "The number is ----->" . $_POST['Number'];
?>
---------------> Script Ends <---------------------------

---------------> Script name : form.php <----------------

<?php
echo "<form method=POST action=\"./test.php\">
<input type=text name=Number size=20> &nbsp;<input type=submit value=\"Submit\"></form>";
?>
---------------> Script Ends <---------------------------

just run the script "form.php" , you should get the value.


(2) For PHP version 4.1.0 or less :


everything is same, just change the code of the file test.php to the following :

---------------> Script name : test.php <----------------

<?php
echo "The number is -----> $Number";
?>
---------------> Script Ends <---------------------------

This change is necessary becuase the configuration settings register_globals which is turned off from PHP 4.2.0. So you must use the superglobal arrays to get a variable. please inform here if you still have problems.



nilashis chatterjee

Thank you for your help.Your test script For PHP version 4.2.0 or above worked For I am using php-4.3.3 and the variables I used in the script was just $Number not $_POST['Number'];
But here I faced another problem : Whene I use a variable in such form like $Child[$Count] and changing the $Child with $_POST['Child'] it results in the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\dynamic2.php on line 10

As you see I use the examle from page 160 on BEGINNING PHP4 and they worked fine in the web server on my hosting account.
I use IIS server and thank you very much for you help.

First, read up on the register_globals FAQ:
  http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginnin...2002-11/17.asp

Your parse error is due to writing invalid PHP code. To access nested arrays, each array index is in it's own brackets:

  echo $_POST['Child'][$Count];

If you can't figure out your error, please post the PHP code that generates that error and we'll tell you what's wrong.


I'm going to take a guess, though: You're echoing your variables from within a string.

Read up on string types here: http://www.php.net/types.string

If your code looks like this:

echo "The value is $_POST['Child'][$Count]";

This won't work for a couple reasons.

First, when PHP parses an array in a double-quoted string, PHP assumes that the index part of that array will either be a string, a variable, or a number. Since the parser is already in a string, these tokens are parsed as strings, so a number isn't an integer, it's a number string. These values are extracted by the code parser. Each part is called a "token", and these tokens all have names, or identifiers, describing what kind of token it is. For example, the token name for a number string is T_NUM_STRING.

That all said, when PHP parses your line, the first character it reads in the array index is a single-quote mark. This confuses PHP since it's not a variable, number, or string. Well, technically it is a string, but PHP can't handle this as an automatically parsed index. The correct way to do this is to leave out the quotes:
  echo "The value is $_POST[Child]";


Second: Within a double quoted string, PHP can only parse up to a single level of indexing in an array. To do more, you'll need to exit the string and concatenate the value (1) or use curly-brace syntax (2). I prefer curly-brace syntax.

1: echo "The value is " . $_POST['Child'][$Count];
2: echo "The value is {$_POST['Child'][$Count]}";

Within curly-braces, PHP breaks out of regular string parsing mode and parses variables as if they were in regular context. Therefore, you do need to quote your string array indexes.


Again, I strongly suggest reading the relevant documentation:
  http://www.php.net/types.string
  http://www.php.net/manual


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

I'm having a problem with a new install of PHP 5.04 running with IIS6 on win 2003 server. My variables are not being passed in forms. For example I tried the form.php and tesp.php above. If I enter 1 in the textbox and submit I get
"Notice: Undefined index: Number in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\admin\test.php on line 2
The number is ----->"
register-globals is off. Any ideas?
Thanks