Thanks that worked just fine.  But now I am irritated as hell.  Obviously there
is no backwards compatibility with new releases.  Does this mean if I install a
new version of PHP then all books published before that date are worthless?
Seems so.

For example in a book discussing PHP 3 it says:

<?
phpinfo();
?>

This works just fine.  In a book that discusses PHP 4 it says:

<?
php_info()
?>

This gives "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: php_info() in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\phpinfo.php on line 2."

So it's not just backwards compatibility it is careless planning.  This is not
good.  I will have to search hi and lo to determine if a failure is due to
incorrect syntax because of version and not just careless typing on my part.

I remember when FORTRAN was being developed we were assurred that all previous
commands from older versions would continue operative in the new.  FORTRAN 77
to FORTRAN 90.  I think the developers of PHP ought to consider why the
developers of FORTRAN thought that might be a good thing to do.  It is still
used to this day.  Write a FORTRAN 77 prog and it will compile and run on a
FORTRAN 90 compiler out of the box.  Thanks again.

--
George Hester
_________________________________
"Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Try:
>
> <? echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; ?>
>
> ... you might have a newer version of PHP (4.1+), which uses the global
> arrays like:
>
> $_SERVER
> $_POST
> $_GET
> $_SESSION
> $_COOKIE
>
> ...
>
>
> Justin French
>
>
>
>
> on 11/07/02 12:32 PM, George Hester ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > I have this in my web site not in an executable folder:
> >
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>My First PHP Program</TITLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> > <?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> >
> > No problem.  I then put this in the same folder:
> >
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>My Second PHP Program</TITLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> > <?php echo $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ?>
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> >
> > Nothing appears.  What's wrong?
> >
> >
> > --
> > George Hester
> > _________________________________
> >
> >
>



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