FORM variable do not follow to next page

Problem with FORM variables on Mandrake Linux

[Montbazin]

I have installed PHP and MySQL on my Mandrake 9.1 platform. Now i tried to test some of my PHP scripts and MySQL requests. The work all fine. Bot whe I use a form:

<form action="next-page.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="myvariable" value="something">
<input type="submit" value="Click">

it will send me to

next-page.php

but the variable

$myvariable

will remain empty.

Can somebody help me out on this?

Thanks

[sned]

Have you tried accessing it on your next-page.php file like this:

$myvariable = $_POST['myvariable'];

-sned

[Montbazin]

thanks sned

it worked. how come that the other way without

 $_POST

always worked fine on several servers where I have my websites hosted.
Has something to be changed on the PHP configuration on my local Linux machine and will this work in any case if I modify this on my websites. I mean will it be more appropriate?

tanks
roberto (montbazin)

[sned]

It is a php configuration thing, see register_globals [us3.php.net].

When it is turned on, you can access form variables the way you mentioned in the first post. When it is turned off, you have to use the GET and POST arrays --- $_GET['somevar'], $_POST['somevar'], $_SESSION['somevar'], etc.

-sned

[Montbazin]

thanks again
this is of great help for me.
do you know what the path to the PHP configuration file is, sorry I even don't know what this file is called. I only know I can read it with "phpinfo()"

[sned]

The file is usually called php.ini, I'm not sure where you would find it at, on my server, its at /etc/php.ini

-sned

[Montbazin]

super

thanks a lot, best wishes from Montbazin in France...
roberto