The simple but potentially wrong..harmful solution is to turn on
register globals in php.ini,
The right solution is to use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:48, Mario Montag wrote:
> First time playing with PHP, Apache, and MySQL. I have a simple form error
> and I don't know how to solve it. I was doing the Webmonkey PHP/MySQL
> tutorial and when I started using forms with $PHP_SELF I started getting
> errors with variables not defined.
>
> PHP 4.2.3
> MySQL 4.0 Windows 2000
> Apache 1.3.27 (Since I was not able to get 2.0 working on Windows 2K Pro)
>
> My code is:
>
> //---------- START OF CODE --------------
> <html><body><?php
>
> $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root");
> mysql_select_db("mydb",$db);
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM employees",$db);
>
> if ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
> do {
> printf("
> <a href=\"%s?id=%s\">%s %s</a><br>\n",
> $PHP_SELF,
> $myrow["id"],
> $myrow["first"],
> $myrow["last"]
> );
> } while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));
> }
>
> else {
> echo "Sorry, no records were found!";
> }
>
> ?>
> </body></html>
>
> //-------------------------------------------------
>
> My ERROR is:
>
> Notice: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in C:\Program Files\Apache
> Group\Apache\htdocs\mysql2.php on line 11
> Bob Smith
>
> Notice: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in C:\Program Files\Apache
> Group\Apache\htdocs\mysql2.php on line 11
> John Roberts
>
> Notice: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in C:\Program Files\Apache
> Group\Apache\htdocs\mysql2.php on line 11
> Brad Johnson
>
> Notice: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in C:\Program Files\Apache
> Group\Apache\htdocs\mysql2.php on line 11
> Mar f
>
> --------------- END OF ERROR ----------------------------
>
> I am able to connect to the MySQL DB and retrieve info, but I don't get the
> error. I changed the REGISTER_GLOBALS of the php.ini file to ON and I still
> get the variables error. I also added $_POST as stated in another form
> issue but it did not resolve my problem. It must be simple but I don't know
> enough to identify the issue.
>
> Thanks for any help or input.
>
> Mario
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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