Wow, there are some really bitchy, unattractive people here. No wonder some
people bail out of IT. Don't confuse knowledge for wisdom.

On 1/9/07, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

At 9:17 PM -0500 1/5/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You'll probably get 50 answers to this, but here's probably what
happened.
>
>There's a setting called "register globals" that will turn your
>name=me and age=27 into $name = "me" and $age = "27".  It used to be
>turned ON by default.  This was generally considered to be bad
>security, so it now defaults to OFF.
>
>To get these variables, just use the $_GET system variable.
>
>$name = $_GET['name'];
>$age = $_GET['age'];
>
>Easy!
>
>Best of luck!
>
>-TG

Just to add to -TG advice, you should also clean those inputs. IWO,
make sure the values fall within what you expect. Basic security.

tedd
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