Hi
Me again
Check on Your setting -> ; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1
session variable is saved here if the user have cookies turned off it will
still work if your have trans-sid turn on.
BTW you don't have to use a dropdown radio buttons or tick box will work as
well
Johan
""Suamya Srivastava"" <suamya.srivastava@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thank you all for the help.
> I did not want to use dropdown box..that was the very reason i was
> wondering if I can pass the variables through a hyperlink. I used $_GET
> and it worked fine. However, as mentioned in the posts its not advisable
> to use $_REQUEST. Could you please elaborate on the reason?
> This brings me to another question....
> I have registered a variable as a session variable so that I can use it on
> any page during that session. HOwever, this was not working when I first
> tried it. I read somewhere that I need to enable register_globals. On
> doing so, it worked and I could access my session variable on any other
> page. Is this wrong? Is there an alternative? Please suggest.
>
> - suamya
>
> > On 8/24/07, Goltsios Theodore <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> the posted or got option buy using the $_REQUEST array ($_GET and
$_POST
> >> are
> >> included in that like a less lame solution). Let's say you have a
> >
> > Please do not encourage the use of $_REQUEST.
> >
> > You might as well just tell people to enable register_globals again.
> >
> > Use $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, etc. for the
> > appropriate source of data. $_REQUEST is laziness and introduces most
> > of the same issues that was the reasoning behind disabling
> > register_globals to begin with.
> >
> > (As for dropdowns, that's just an in-browser method of collecting data
> > and sending the key/value pairs in POST or GET... IMHO the HTML
> > portion should already be known before someone steps into the realm of
> > PHP and server-side programming)
> >
> > - mike
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