Newbie needs help with QueryString

[jimny]

I inherited a PERl/PHP(and I am not familiar with) site and am getting an error when looking for a querystring value.

the original HREF is like:

<A class=listLink
href=&quot;artist_frame.shtml?artist_id=10&quot;
target=cag_content>Artist 10</A>

and the code on the recieving page is:

#!/usr/local/bin/php 
<?php
$id = $HTTP_GET_VARS['artist_id'];

?>

and returns:

Notice: Undefined index: artist_id in C:\Inetpub\mysite\cgi\artist_frame.php on line 3

Is there something that I need to enable &quot;$HTTP_GET_VARS[]&quot; on the server? Otherwise I tried capturing the artist_id value from the querystring using:

($key, $id) = split(/=/,$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'},2);
#since there is only one variable

and I get:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in artist_frame.php on line 4

if I go with:

@vals = split(/=/,$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

I get:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=' in artist_frame.php on line 4

All this leads me to believe I a missing something on the server. Any suggestions?
Thanks....

 

[sleipnir214]

It probably has something to do with the fact that you're not submitting the data to PHP. Your URL reads &quot;artist_frame.shtml?artist_id=10&quot;, not &quot;artist_frame.php?artist_id=10&quot;

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[jimny]

Thanks for the quick response.

I checked &quot;artist_frame.shtml&quot; and it contains a redirect(?)

<!--#exec cgi=&quot;/cgi/artist_frame.php&quot;-->

I tried changing the HREF to &quot;artist_frame.php&quot; and got a &quot;page cannot be found&quot; error.

How would I capture the id value and then pass it?
like:

$id= $cgi->param('artist_id');
<!--#exec cgi=&quot;/cgi/artist_frame.php?artist_id=&quot;$id-->

Sorry for being so inept...I will definitely be looking in to PERL/PHP after this!