Posted by Peter Fox on 07/11/85 11:36

Following on from Village's message. . .
>I have installed PHP a number of times following tutorials from online
>and from a book. I have been able to process simple functions such at
>date() but when it comes to simply sending information from a HTML form
>to a PHP page to display it doesn't work.
>
>I know it isn't my programming as i have copied it word for word from a
>book, and even used one of their examples from the site.
The book was taking some deprecated shortcuts.
(See 'register globals' in the manual)

try
print_r($_POST);
or
print_r($_REQUEST);
to see what has been passed to PHP, then you can pick the bits you want
out of the array, *validate them*, *validate them again* then use them.

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