Posted by macsaregreat on 06/09/07 18:42

O,THANK YOU so much ^_^ it works with the
<?php

echo $_REQUEST['submission_id'];

import_request_variables('p', 'p_');
echo $p_submission_id;?>

What is the difference between the two that allow this one to work and
not the other?

Thanks
Josh

On Jun 9, 2:34 pm, macsaregr...@gmail.com wrote:
> O sorry, forgot about that, version PHP Version 4.4.7
> I did try Post method, and $HTTP_GET_VARS
> <?php $submission_id=$HTTP_POST_VARS['submission_id'];
> echo($submission_id . "<BR>"); ?>
>
> ill try the $_REQUEST. to see what happens
>
> On Jun 9, 2:26 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
>
> > macsaregr...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > hi, I have a get method <?php echo $_GET['submission_id']; ?> It
> > > worked just fine on my host, bu then It wont work on a server at
> > > 1and1.
>
> > As we don't know what version of php the later one uses, we can't for sure say
> > what's wrong, but it could be that you aren't using the get method, but post,
> > in which case you should have used $_POST, but when unsure how a page will be
> > called on and you aren't that picky about the moethod, then use $_REQUEST.
>
> > If they use an old version of php (pre 4.1.0), then use $HTTP_GET_VARS and/or
> > $HTTP_POST_VARS. Keep in mind that those won't work well on newer versions of php.
>
> > --
>
> > //Aho

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