You should use $_POST...

On 2/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all from a newbie.  We have a Nitix server (from Net Integration
> Technologies, Inc.) that hosts various web site.  Recently they released a
> software upgrade, and in the release notes was this warning:
>
> "A number of PHP options (in the php.ini file) were changed, either to
> improve security or to more closely follow the recommendations of the PHP
> developers. This should make it easier to run third-party PHP packages on
> Nitix, but could break existing installations that have been adapted for
> Nitix."
>
> After installing this release, the simplest of all simple things would no
> longer work - a basic HTML menu with 6 choices passed to a PHP script that
> prints out the selection chosen by the user!!  The variable name when
> printed (echo'd) in the PHP script was empty.
>
> The HTML:
>
> <form name="form1" method="post" action="a.php">
> <select name="aName" size="1" id="select">
> <option>Deb</option>
> <option>Frank</option>
> <option>Jeff</option>
> <option>Lynne</option>
> <option>Nick</option>
> <option>Tom</option>
> </select>
> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
> </form>
>
> The PHP:
>
> <?php
>
> echo $aName . "ttt";
>
> ?>
>
> What displays???  Just ttt of course.  What exactly could have changed to
> make this simple script fail?

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