[rudynorff]

hi erveryone,

yesterday i wanted to set up mac os x, php and mysql. i want to run this configuration so my team and i can upload files and project descriptions from university. i wrote a little shell script which always tells my website the dynamic ip that my computer has at the moment.

to this point, everything works awesome. my only problem is i can't pass parameters on my local server. the scripts ran on my remote server, so they must be correct.

here is an example of whta i want to do:

index.php:
<a href="test.php?case=true">TEST</a>

tset.php:
<?php
if ($case=="true") {
echo "hello world";
}
?>

it doesn't recognize the parameter that i pass. does anybody know what this is? maybe a setting in the http.conf file?

best regards
rudy

[cambro]

You are not referencing your passed variables correctly. As of php 4.0 (or something like that), you have to refer to passed variables as $_POST or $_GET (arrays that are predefined for forms (post) or url variables (get). Variables are NOT registered as globals automatically for security reasons.

In your case, I bet if you change:

if ($case=="true")

TO:
if ($_GET['case']=="true")

It'll work.

See the php pages for more help.

[rudynorff]

I did't know that this was new to PHP. In my (older) book this method was tought. I used this method in a lot of my other projects but they all run just perfectly on my remote servers. Do you know how that can be?

Anyways, thanks alot for your help!

rudy

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by rudynorff:
I did't know that this was new to PHP. In my (older) book this method was tought. I used this method in a lot of my other projects but they all run just perfectly on my remote servers. Do you know how that can be?

Alot of shared servers have register globals turned on because alot of scripts still reply on the old insecure methods. You can edit your local php.ini and find `register_globals` and turn it on for your local install to function like the server does.

BTW, you should think about getting away from coding like that, as it is a huge potential security risk. Using the superglobal arrays is not much more difficult.