Check your php.ini. register_globals = off would be your culprit.
Check www.php.net/register_globals for instructions on how to use the new
"superglobals" ($_POST, $_GET, etc) or change it to on. Restart Apache
after you change it.
(one more vote for a register_globals email bot...)
-Dash
One Page Principle:
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch
paper cannot be understood.
-- Mark Ardis
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, paradiddles wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I successfully installed (locally) the php/mysql/apache bundle called swamp-0.1.1.
>
> I created my 1st php file that I've attached along w/a very basic .html form that it
>is supposed to parse (from the bookPHP and MySQL Web Development by Welling and
>Thomason). the php file does not seem to recognize the text passed to PHP's simple
>echo construct tag.
>
> When I click the "submit" button on the form, the php file is called up and displays
>"Sean's products" and "Order results"...but the text w/in the echo construct tag
>"Order processed" does not display.
>
> I saved both the form and the php file locally in a dir. called www which is in the
>root of my swamp directory
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
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>can do this if you try. All that I want for you my son, is to be satisfied"
>
> ~ Lynard Skynard
>
>
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