Most likely you have register_globals set to "off" on your php.ini. 
Change this to register_globals = on (or "true", or "yes", either one 
should).

If you dont want to do that, Try with $_GET['name'] or $_POST['name'].

HTH.

   Oscar F.-

Andres Olarte wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> I've just built PHP from source (4.2.3) on Red Hat Linux 7.2 with
> 
> configure --with-java --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apx
> 
> It's running with Apache 1.3.26
> 
> PHP work ok, even Java works, but if I try to pass variables from a form 
> with either POST or GET, the variables don't get through.  This is the 
> code I'm using:
> 
> index.html:
> ...
> <form action="php.php" method="post">
>     Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
>      <input type="submit">
>  </form>
> ...
> 
> php.php:
> 
> <?php
> echo "*";
> echo $name;
> echo "*";
> ?>
> 
> The variable $name is always empty.  I tried this same scripts on the 
> RPM version installed with Mandrake 7.2 and it worked fine, so it 
> shouldn't be the scripts.  What could be wrong? Maybe I missed a 
> ./configure option?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Andres
> 
> 
> 
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