Someone look at this I'm not sure what to do!

[dextdesigns]

I am passing 4 variables from a drop down search box into this. Basiclly if $name is set then I want it to out the code for that search. If $category is set then I want the code to be displayed for that ... same for $topic and $fee. I don't get any errors, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

<?PHP
$subtitle = ' :: Speakers';
include("includes/vars.php");
include("includes/header.php");
?>

<?PHP
if (isset($name)) {
print "<td width='366' height='159' rowspan='2' align='left' valign='top' background='images/nav/textbg.jpg' id='norm_padding'>";
print "<div id='text'><?PHP include('includes/text/speakers/index'.$name.'.txt'); ?></div></td>";
print "<td width='345' rowspan='3' align='left' valign='top' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' id='norm_padding'>";
print "<div id='text'>&nbsp;</div></td>";
print "<td width='14' rowspan='3' bgcolor='#75818C'>&nbsp;</td>";
print "</tr>";
print "<tr>";    
    
}elseif(isset($category)) {
print "category!";

}elseif(isset($topic)) {
print "topic!";

}else{
print "fee range!";
}
?>

<?PHP
include("includes/footer.php");
?>

[bonk]

You might want to try $_GET['name'] or $_POST['name'] depending on how your form variables are sent. Post is usually for a form, get for url. To check you can always:
print_r($_POST);

[Gybbyl]

You should also check whether you have register_globals turned on -- That can cause some *weird* stuff to happen (well, it's not really weird, but it's like a curveball (you would never expect it)).

If you've got it turned off, then you know that you need to follow Bonk's advice and access it using the superglobal arrays. If you've got it turned off, then there is no possible way your code can work, unless you are running extract() somewhere before what you've pasted.