Help! Frustrated!

[Rougy]

I'm just learning PHP.

Got an Apache server running on my Win98se laptop.

Some PHP programs won't run on it, some will.

An example of the problem is here:

http://www.theblackflag.org/inputform.html

Whenever it calls the display_results.php file on my Apache server, nothing works.

But it is working on my host's website.

I'm REALLY frustrated and I hope somebody out there can help.

Thanks,

Rougy

 

[Rougy]

FOUND IT:

I went to the php.ini file and set the globals option to something like "globals=On"

 

[rastkocvetkovic]

Yep, the newest version of PHP doesn't get the values from URL as we were used to. The standard $url_variable should be now retrieved by $_GLOBALS('$url') or something like that.

 

[rastkocvetkovic]

Actually, this is very well said on PHP.NET manual:

Warning
In PHP 4.2.0 and later, the default value for the PHP directive register_globals is off. This is a major change in PHP. Having register_globals off affects the set of predefined variables available in the global scope. For example, to get DOCUMENT_ROOT you'll use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] instead of $DOCUMENT_ROOT, or $_GET['id'] from the URL

http://www.example.com/test.php?id=3

instead of $id, or $_ENV['HOME'] instead of $HOME.

For related information on this change, read the configuration entry for register_globals, the security chapter on Using Register Globals , as well as the PHP 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 Release Announcements.

Using the available PHP Reserved Predefined Variables, like the superglobal arrays, is preferred.


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Hope this helps anyone.