Can't display input variable passed on to php code

mespejo · November 22nd, 2003, 06:05 AM

I have read similar problems posted on this forum regarding not being able to display input value called from html form & passed on to php - refer to the code below. I have tried the following recommendation but still can't make it work.

1) set "register_globals=off" in php.ini.
2) have used "$_GET[]" to display variable.

I'm running IIS 5.0 on W2K & PHP v4.3.4.

Any other idea?

HTML code:
-------------------------
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="text.php">

Who is your favourite author?

<INPUT NAME="Author" TYPE="text">
<BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

PHP code:
-------------------------
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
Your favourite author is:
<?php
echo $_GET['Author'];
?>
</body>
</html>

richard.york · November 22nd, 2003, 03:41 PM

If that doesn't work then perhaps you have a problem with how PHP is set-up.

Can you see output from this script?:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

: )
Rich

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Smiling Souls
http://www.smilingsouls.net
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mespejo · November 25th, 2003, 03:32 PM

Hi Rich,
Thanks for your input. PHP was reinstalled and now it's working perfectly.