Hi..

I'm really trying to figure out how to explain all this without sounding like a gerbil on dope.

I just installed php and mysql on an older powermac running OSX. Everything works nicely. I even got phpMyAdmin installed and created a new database, tables, etc.

Then I wrote a nice script to fill the databases up with info (it is a client database to be run locally) So, to tell the difference between editing, adding, etc, i use the old

PHP Code:

 if (isset($addpage)): 


and so on and so forth. So.. When I pass a variable in the url (http://www.mysite.com/test.php?THIS="that") it doesn't work... When I upload it to my regular web servers it works fine. Basically I've done a million little tests to show that everything is working except variables won't travel...

This has led me too think that the problem is in the php.ini file on the g4. So my question is, in a nutshell, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?

cheers
-e

In a nutshell? PHP comes configures with register_globals set to off, and has since 4.2 if I remember correctly. Check out this page for more info: http://us3.php.net/globals

That did it! Actually my REAL problem was that I was editing the wrong php.ini file. But my secondary problem was rgister globals. The php.ini file was in private and not etc. Why? I have no idea. Anyway, Thanks for the help!

Happy to help. I had the same problem with register_globals when I first set up php on my laptop for testing. Drove me nuts for hours.