I have Beginning PHP 4 and It's a great book! It's helped me learn some things for a current project already. However, i've decided to start from the beginning and work my way through and I'm already stuck. In the "Getting Data from the Client" section on using GET and POST i'm getting no results. My code is perfect and yes I reviewed the "Why this example might not be working for you" section and everything checks out. However, when i submit the form i get the .php page back but the variables ($Authors and $WebSites) aren't ECHO'd back as they should be. I also don't get any error messages and no errors show in my Apache error log. I'm almost positive i need to adjust some aspect of the http.conf file to allow this all to function, but i'm clueless...anyone have suggestions?

I'm developing locally using VirtualHosts if that makes any difference?

Cheers!

Thanks to Daniel Walker's response to this post i figured it out.
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17661

In the book it says you simply echo back the variable like so...
<?php echo "$Author"; ?> // Which doesn't work (for me :)

However, for me (Different version of PHP?) this does work...
<?php echo ($_GET['author']); ?>

If anyone has an explanation for this i'd appreciate it. I don't *think* it's an error in the book?

Ok, I found an answer to my second question on the book's errata page here...
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...ew_errata.html

It's the second topic. Seems that register_globals is off by default on OS X. After looking around it seems it might be best to leave it that way for security reasons?

Well, it was nice having a conversation with myself. Hope this is of use to someone else!

Cheers!