Chapter 2 page 48 'register_globals' question

wndy26 · June 23rd, 2004, 06:44 PM

First, let me say that I am using Apache2Triad from my win xp home pc for testing purposes only.

I did the Try It Out exercise on page 47 to show about register_globals and mine did not come up like the book showed. Does this mean that my register_globals is turned on?

Just curious why it didn't show up the way the book said.

Thanks,

wndy26 · June 23rd, 2004, 06:53 PM

Working further in this little section, I added the php code to the title section of my document and it didn't work as expected either. Any clues?

Thanks,

ElizabethN · June 24th, 2004, 07:10 AM

What were the results you saw?

Maedhros ~V~ · June 30th, 2004, 04:58 PM

I'm having problems with this section as well. When I try to run movie1.php I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\test\movie1.php on line 12

Here is what my movie1.php looks like:

<html>
<head>
<title>Find my Favorite Movie!</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
    echo "<a href='http://localhost/moviesite.php?favmovie=Stripes'>";
    echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";
    echo "</a>;
?>
</body>
</html>

And here is my moviesite.php:

<html>
<head>

<title>My Movie Site - <?php echo $_REQUEST ['favmovie'] ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
    echo "My favorite movie is ";
    echo $_REQUEST ['favmovie'];
    echo "<br>";
    $movierate=5;
    echo "My movie rating for this movie is: ";
    echo $movierate;
?>
</body>
</html>

Hopefully someone can point out what is wrong.

ElizabethN · July 1st, 2004, 05:34 PM

The line that reads:
echo "</a>;

Should read:
echo "</a>";

You are missing your end quote.

Maedhros ~V~ · July 1st, 2004, 11:07 PM

Thanks, after checking the code over and over I finally realized what I missed. Now that I'm well into Ch. 2 I realize how careful you have to be when entering and checking code. I've been stumped a few times only to find that I've missed a " or a ;. It's really helpful having this forum though. Thanks to everyone who takes time to help us newbies out.