You should use $_POST... On 2/8/06, Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all from a newbie. We have a Nitix server (from Net Integration > Technologies, Inc.) that hosts various web site. Recently they released a > software upgrade, and in the release notes was this warning: > > "A number of PHP options (in the php.ini file) were changed, either to > improve security or to more closely follow the recommendations of the PHP > developers. This should make it easier to run third-party PHP packages on > Nitix, but could break existing installations that have been adapted for > Nitix." > > After installing this release, the simplest of all simple things would no > longer work - a basic HTML menu with 6 choices passed to a PHP script that > prints out the selection chosen by the user!! The variable name when > printed (echo'd) in the PHP script was empty. > > The HTML: > > <form name="form1" method="post" action="a.php"> > <select name="aName" size="1" id="select"> > <option>Deb</option> > <option>Frank</option> > <option>Jeff</option> > <option>Lynne</option> > <option>Nick</option> > <option>Tom</option> > </select> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> > </form> > > The PHP: > > <?php > > echo $aName . "ttt"; > > ?> > > What displays??? Just ttt of course. What exactly could have changed to > make this simple script fail? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
