Is there any updated code for the now standard register_globals=Off? I'm just starting to re-work through my book but would like all examples to work with globals off.

I couldn't find the reference page in the book, but if you're using, for example: <FORM METHOD=POST in the calling script (ie HTML), then just use a variable declaration at the beginning of the called script (ie PHP) using the

$IncomingVariable = $_POST["IncomingVariable"];
format.
Same goes with METHOD=GET:

$IncomingVariable = $_GET["IncomingVariable"];

As an example, in Chapter 3, the text.html example is sending the $Author variable to text.php. The METHOD=GET is used, so you might have this typed in the text.php file:

$Author = $_GET["Author"];

The variable getting the assignment: $Author could easily be named $IncomingVariable, but the second Author (in quotes and brackets) would match the name of the variable sent.

Later chapters talk of other methods of passing variables as well.

Oregon

Thanks for the reply. Actually I have been changing the examples of chapter 3 in the way you were describing but I have been running into problems nevertheless.It would be nice if Wrox could supply updated code for the book. As far as I know, globals off is now the recommendation and all code should now be written that way. Is it true that php5 will not even allow globals on?

I don't know about the PHP5 thing. I just remember good coding practice from the older (Pascal etc.) days. I've been using the book examples and have been using the POST method mostly, since GET splashes the info for all to see. My brother's been a software pogrammer for years and talked me into getting Homesite5. It rocks!

Oregon

Aha, this is what I've been looking for:
http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginnin...2002-11/17.asp