Well actually the credit for underlining links goes much further back, to Tim Berners-Lee - at least as far as WWW goes, and even further if you look at the predecessor(s) to HTML (i.e. SGML).
One of the reasons for this is to give visual clues to those that are less technically (or just mentally) skilled. Having done IT work full-time for the last two years I can attest to the requirement of such visual clues. While someone who has been using the internet for a fair amount of time doesn't require those clues. We have to remember that there are a LOT of complete morons out there who couldn't find their own arses with two hands and a mirror. Admittedly the whole thing with underscores and underlines overlapping is a pain in the ass, but then again so are newbie documents with titles such as "Costing Report for the 26th of January 1998 for Joseph McPherson .htm" (I've seen this kind of thing many times). Sorry if this sounds like a rant, it's Monday and I'd rather be coding, but I'm stuck with IT. However, I don't make any apologies if I've offended anyone <grin> -----Original Message----- From: Ross Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 4-Feb-02 03:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Can't pass variables to PHP scripts?! Please help. Indeed you are right, my apologies. My thanks go to Mr Gates and his pointless ambiguous underlining of URLs. :) Ross -----Original Message----- From: Mike Maltese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2002 09:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Can't pass variables to PHP scripts?! Please help. The space is an underscore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Travis Wyatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:01 AM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Can't pass variables to PHP scripts?! Please help. > Also, just another point: > http://www.socopc.com/test.php?testvar=hello_world will not work (at least > it shouldn't), you can't have a space in a URL. It should be URL encoded to > : > http://www.socopc.com/test.php?testvar=hello%20world > > Ross > > -----Original Message----- > From: Travis Wyatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 February 2002 06:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Can't pass variables to PHP scripts?! Please help. > > > Here is my situation...I can't seem to get variables to pass from a > GET or POST method to a PHP script. To see for yourself go to: > http://www.socopc.com/test.php?testvar=hello_world > > The source of "test.php" is... > <html> > <? for ($x=0;$x<5;$x++) { echo $x; } ?> > <br><? print "testvar=\"".$testvar."\""; ?> > <br><br><br><? phpinfo(); ?> > </html> > > > And as you will see, I get the error. > Warning: Undefined variable: testvar in > c:\root\domains\socopc.com\test.php on line 3 > testvar="" > > Indicating that the variable is empty and has not been passed?! > I'm running Win2k Server w/ Apache and PHP 4.1.1. > > If someone could look at that page (included are most of my > settings). And help me fix my PHP configuration? Thanks! > ~ Travis > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
