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Hi, I'm using the book...PHP for the world wide web

In chapter 3 there are two scripts, form.html and HandleForm.php shown below:

But when I run it and enter data, I get this..

Your first name is .
Your last name is .
Your E-mail address is .
This is what you had to say:

For some reason the $name is just blank.
My web hosting uses PHP5, and the book is for PHP 3 and 4, but I doubt thats why.

Can anyone help??

Gregg Bolinger

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Either the book is wrong or you're missing a step. If you post a form in PHP, you have to get the values from the $_POST variable like so...

Not sure what they are doing in the code you've posted.

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Thanks, yes thats right, apparently its a security thing new to PHP5.

So you use GET for get requests, and POST for post requests.
I hope my 2 php books aren't too outdated with regards to other bits of code.

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guy this book is old, try another one like the "PHP 5 Power Programming" .

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The feature is called "Register Globals". In old versions of PHP what you're doing was allowed by default, but in PHP 4.2 it was disabled by default for security reasons. And in PHP5 it's officially deprecated. Don't use it

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