Doh, I should have thought of that! Thanks, that is what happens when you use code that someone else has writen and included with a software package. At least I assumed that the code was already written correctly to accept parameters. I guess it wasn't. Thank you Eric H. Lommatsch Programmer 360 Business ________________________________ From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 1:39 PM To: Eric Lommatsch Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Issue with $HTTP_POST_VARS Not getting Variables On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 13:37 -0700, Eric Lommatsch wrote: Hello, I am working with a login page to use with an application that we are planning to make available as a web service. The login.php page itself works correctly, however when I try and pass parameters to the login page the are not being recognized by the login.php page. Here is the basic code that I am dealing with to attempt to the the variables: <?php $username = $HTTP_POST_VARS['username']; $password = $HTTP_POST_VARS['password']; $username = $_POST['username']; $password = $_POST['password']; echo $username; ?> When I enter the url http://localost/index.php?username=jasperadmin&password=****** Where localhost is the ip address of my server and ****** is the password of the user that is logging in, I am not having the username questioned and the login.php isacting as if I have not entered any parameters. Why are the parameters not being accepted? I am using php version 5.2.6 on a ubuntu linux box Thank you Eric H. Lommatsch Programmer 360 Business First off, take out those HTTP_POST_VARS lines. That's an outdated way of accessing post variables, and is made useless by the next two lines that follow it. Second, the two lines you are using at the end there are for post data, but you clearly use get data in the URL! If you have to accept the username and password from both get and post, change the lines to use $_REQUEST instead of $_POST. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
