Posted by Phil Preen on 06/12/07 21:14

"Phil Preen" <n/a> wrote in message
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>I have installed Apache and PHP (and MySQL) on my own computer so that I
>can test
> out my scripts without having to keep uploading them to my ISP.
> I have created a very simple php script (below) just to test out my
> set-up.
> This works fine when I upload it to the server at my ISP (when I type
> something
> in the box, it is displayed back to me) but when I run it on my own
> system,
> I get nothing. I can see the value in the querystring in the address bar
> of
> my browser, but the $eek variable does not seem to be being set. Is there
> something I need to enable in PHP or Apache to make this work?


Found it. I needed to set register_globals=on in php.ini

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