Cannot process forms in PHP

[Village]

I have installed PHP several times using tutorials and information from
a book, but each time I am able to use basic functions, such as date(),
but when it comes to processing forms it shows up nothing.

I know it can't be my programming as i have copied the book word for
word and even use the example from their website.

All i am trying to do is send information from a HTML form to a PHP
page which will then display what was entered into the form. The code i
have used on the PHP page is shown below:

<?php
/* This page receives and handles the data generated by "form.htm". */
print "Your first name is $FirstName.<BR> \n";
print "Your last name is $LastName.<BR>\ n";
print "Your E-mail address is $email.<BR>\n";
print "This is what you had to say:<BR>\n$Comm ents<BR>\n";
?>

Is there anything wrong with this, or have i installed PHP incorrectly.
Any Suggestions?
Thank you very much.

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Cannot process forms in PHP

Village wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have installed PHP several times using tutorials and information from
> a book, but each time I am able to use basic functions, such as date(),
> but when it comes to processing forms it shows up nothing.
>
> I know it can't be my programming as i have copied the book word for
> word and even use the example from their website.
>
> All i am trying to do is send information from a HTML form to a PHP
> page which will then display what was entered into the form. The code i
> have used on the PHP page is shown below:
>
> <?php
> /* This page receives and handles the data generated by "form.htm". */
> print "Your first name is $FirstName.<BR> \n";
> print "Your last name is $LastName.<BR>\ n";
> print "Your E-mail address is $email.<BR>\n";
> print "This is what you had to say:<BR>\n$Comm ents<BR>\n";
> ?>
>
> Is there anything wrong with this, or have i installed PHP incorrectly.
> Any Suggestions?
> Thank you very much.[/color]


Hi again,

See my last suggestion.

Again you didn't show us all code.
Show us your formcode too.

Maybe you are relying on register_global s is on?
That sucks, and should be disabled.

Some old (and bad) code for PHP gives examples that rely on registerglobals
to be on.
Do not follow that.
Just use the superglobal $_POST[] (for post) and $_GET[] (for getting name
value pairs from the url.)

Regards,
Erwin Moller