php $_GET

samon_18 · December 24th, 2005, 04:22 PM

i'm new to php, so i downloaded some code, which is below and it just wouln't work for me, it just returns a blank screen

name.html

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="name.php" method="get">
<p><input type="text" name="name" size=32 value="Enter your Name."></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit"></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

name.php

<html>
<?php

/*In this program you'll learn how to get vars from
an html web page.*/

# Setting up Variables
$name = $HTTP_GET_VARS['name'];

# Setup to echo statement
echo "Your name is: $name.";

?>
</html>

i've looked at different websites and no matter what i change i wouln't work for me:(

foddie · December 24th, 2005, 07:39 PM

Hi
Try altering name.php to this

name.php:

<html>
<?php

/*In this program you'll learn how to get vars from
an html web page.*/

# Setting up Variables
$name = $_GET['name'];

# Setup to echo statement
echo "Your name is: $name.";

?>
</html>

Reason:
HTTP_GET_VARS and HTTP_POST_VARS is not now supported in PHP5, (assuming you are using php5), but there are a lot more reasons for using $_GET and $_POST see this post from a while back

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9945

hope this helps

David