[ntsc]

before i begin its been a while since i was really using PHP and this may have been changed and passed me by.

often when i build a webpage with PHP i create the 'template' and load the content of a page with the include() function. i use the links to change a variable which is what the content loaded depends on. so for example to load a projects page i might use www.mywebsite.com/index.php?load=projects and then have a switch statement something like

swtich($load){
case "projects":
include(projects.inc);
break;
default:
inlcude("index.inc");
break;
}

however it seems that with the Apple installed Apache and PHP and indeed the PHP on my ISP's server that this is not valid for some reason. and the load variable value is always the default.

why is this? has something changed with PHP? please help - this used to work

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by ntsc:
why is this? has something changed with PHP? please help - this used to work

register globals are probably turned off. So you have to call post, get, session, etc variables by the superglobal. like so:

[php]swtich($_GET['load']) {
case "projects":
include("projects.inc");
break;

default:
include("index.inc");
break;
}[/php]

http://us3.php.net/variables.predefined

[ntsc]

nice one thanks, is this a common occurrence now? what was wrong with register globals?

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by ntsc:
nice one thanks, is this a common occurrence now? what was wrong with register globals?

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php