Problem: URL query string, nothing shown

**henrylo** · Aug 4, 2000, 02:51

My system is Windows 2000 with:
PHP4 PL2
Apache 1.3.21

I have been starting my PHP learning from resource on the web.
When I read the following site http://www.webmasterbase.com/article...id=228&pid=301
I follow their instruction for the URL query string example and $name, something wrong.
It only show "Welcome to our Web site, ! " in the welcome.php

Same problem occured before for form submitting.

It seems that my server do not response to any variable function. I just don't want to continue if the problem is not solved

Anybody who can kindy suggest solution for my case?

Thanks a lot

**jonese** · Aug 5, 2000, 07:32

can you post the URL that you are having problems with and the PHP code that you are using?

this might help us to help you better.

One thing you can check right away is the spelling of your variable $name. make sure that you have it spelled the same and that it's also done the same. IE $name and not $NaMe.

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**Kevin Yank** · Aug 6, 2000, 20:22

Also make sure register_globals is set to On in your php.ini file.

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**alf** · Sep 9, 2000, 14:25

Yes, I am facing the same problem too. I had check that both track_var and register_global is on.
This is the code for posting data to another php file

file 1.php3
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>

<a href="2.php3"firstname=Kevin&lastname=Yank">Hi, I'm Kevin Yank!</A>

</body>
</html>

file 2.php3
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo("Welcome to our Web site, $firstname $lastname!");
?>

</body>
</html>

**oodie** · Sep 10, 2000, 02:38

<a href="2.php3"firstname=Kevin&lastname=Yank">Hi, I'm Kevin Yank!</A>

It should be

Code:

<a href="2.php3?firstname=Kevin&lastname=Yank">Hi, I'm Kevin Yank!</A>

You have to separate the filename and variables with '?'

**alf** · Sep 11, 2000, 07:09

Hi, thanks for pointing me the error, I tried <a href="2.php3"firstname=Kevin&lastname=Yank">Hi, I'm Kevin Yank!</A> but still can't work. If I use $HTTP_POST_VARS[firstname] I can able to get Kevin as firstname. I don't think this is the correct way to get the post data, am I right? Or can I get it in other way? Hope anyone can answer my question. Thanks!

**oodie** · Sep 11, 2000, 08:09

I don't think this is the correct way to get the post data, am I right?

Actually, this is the recommended way to use GET/POST variables since it's more optimized (by set register_globals to Off and track_vars to On)

Try to check with phpinfo() and see if it correctly loads the configuration from php.ini

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