----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph, Smile Poet"
I admire your perseverance Joe :-) stick to it and we will make you some
kind of a programmer!
> $query="INSERT INTO contacts
> VALUES('','$first','$last','$phone','$mobile','$fax','$e-mail','$web')
> ";
php now installs by default in something called "safe mode" and will no
longer take a form value 'first' and automatically create a variable $first,
as it used to at the time when your tutorial was written.
The reason is security - php would take a POST value 'first' from your form
and make it $first, or it would take a GET value 'first' from a querystring
and make it $first, or a cookie called 'first' and make it $first, or a
session variable called $first as well. The Web page might have already put
the price in $price as $100, along comes sneaky hacker and adds ?price=1 to
the URL of the next page and there goes the data integrity.
So now, all POST variables go into an array called $HTTP_POST_VARS, the
query string into $HTTP_GET_VARS etc and if you want to use the value of the
form field 'first', you have to use $HTTP_POST_VARS["first"] (note: no
dollar in front of "first" there!)
You can either change your code above to this:
$query="INSERT INTO contacts VALUES(" .
"'', '$HTTP_POST_VARS["first"], " .
"$HTTP_POST_VARS["last"], " .
etc
...or just get the values first like this:
$first = $HTTP_POST_VARS["first"];
$last = $HTTP_POST_VARS["last"];
etc
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