[PHP-INSTALL] variables not working

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:24:10 -0700

Hi there

 

I have just installed PHP5 and Apache2 on a Windows 2K computer. Everything seems to work OK, I see the default Apache screen, and I can run phpinfo() and get the page full of data. I can even connect to my mySQL database. But I can’t transfer a simple variable from a form to another php file. However it does work if I use $_POST['inputdata']. I would much rather be able to use simple variables, and cannot work out what I have done wrong, or need to change. The code for the pages is extremely basic but I have reproduced it below.

 

 

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<form action="" method="post" name="form1">

<input name="inputdata" type="text" id="inputdata" size="20" maxlength="20">

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

</body>

</html>

 

 

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php // here I check that a simple statement will print

echo "Hello World"; ?>

<br />

<?php // here I create a variable, give it a value and print it

$testvariable = 'testdata';

echo $testvariable; ?>

<br />

the word that you entered was <?php // this is the input from my form

print $inputdata;

// but it will not appear here

?>

<br />

<br />

<?php

// however it WILL appear here

echo $_POST['inputdata']; ?>

<br />

</body>

</html>

 

I would very much appreciate any help that you can provide, I’ve been going nowhere for hours with this! (it works fine on my hosting companies server)

 

Thanks

 

Eric Lewis

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