CH 3 pg 76

wadesmart · October 26th, 2003, 01:59 PM

YES!! I have read all the facts and posts on this subject already.
YES!! I have read the information on php.net already.
YES!! I have tried every code example in these forums.

Yes, my phpinfo page shows up fine.
Some scripts seem to work, this one absolutly will not.

My global is off, Im using WXP Pro and PHP API version 20020918.
Yes, my registered streams include .php.

After reading all the posts on this subject I cannot believe Im still having a problem and yet, nothing shows up.

The first page:
<html><head><title>Author</title></head>
<body>
    <form method = get action = "text.php">
        <p>Who is your favoriate author?
            <input name = "author" type = "text">
            <br />
            <input type = submit>
        </p>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

The Second page:
<html><head><title>Author</title></head>
<body>
    <p>Your favoriate author is:
        <? php echo $author = $_GET['author'] ; ?>
        </p>
</body>
</html>

wadesmart · October 26th, 2003, 02:01 PM

OK. Im STUPID!!

I just posted on this problem and I just fixed it.

The second page I had:
<? php echo $author = $_GET['author'] ; ?>

If you look closly, I have a space between ? and php.
After coping that to the previous post I accidently hit the back space and it took care of it. It actually took a minute to figure out what happened.

nikolai · October 26th, 2003, 08:46 PM

Also, you don't need an assignment statement in the receiving page. Technically, you're first assigning the value of $_GET['author'] to $author, then echoing the contents of $author to the user.

It's more efficient/streamlined if you just:
echo $_GET['author'];

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/