SenTnel wrote:
Hello!Im new to programing and this is the situation I have with a first level basic php tutorial: One of the samples uses a simple order form that submits to this page and is supposed to return the values entered on that form. This is the code not working: <? echo "<p>Your order"; // Start printing order echo date("jS F,H:i "); echo "<br>"; echo "<p>This is your order:"; echo "<br>"; echo $actionqty." ActionScript<br>"; echo $photoqty." Photoshop<br>"; echo $flashqty." Flash MX<br>"; ?> The problem is that with this code my page does not shows the amounts entered in he form, but the tutorial works with the exact same code, then, the same tutorial showed another "long way" to do the same thing and is using this other code that works on my page: <? echo "<p>Your order"; // Start printing order echo date("jS F,H:i "); echo "<br>"; echo "<p>This is your order:"; echo "<br>"; echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["actionqty"]." ActionScript<br>"; echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["photoqty"]." Photoshop<br>"; echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["flashqty"]." Photoshop<br>"; ?> I want to use the short way, why doesn't work on my server? Do I have to set some settings in php configuration to be able to use php in the short format? Thanks !
To use your 'short way' you need register_globals=on which is a security risk/bad practice. You can use a 'shorter than the long way' which is the way you should be doing it anyway (BTW... your tutorial is old):
echo $_POST['actionqty']." ActionScript<br>"; -Shawn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
