the thing is, using the methods I described in my first post, the
superglobals or autoglobals arent working. I cant figure out why, and , like
the other guy said, most books dont include this feature in a topic for
discussion.

Can anyone offer advice?


"Cyberskydive" <cyberskydive@[...].com>  wrote in message
news:20020405145742.15718.qmail@[...]..
>  So I wanna learn how to code properly with register_globals off, I reead
on
>  PHP.net about the new auto globals and inmy new php4.1.2 windows
>  installation using php.ini-rec edited according to the intall.txt file,
and
>  a few changes from books I have (upload tmp dir etc) I'm off to learn how
to
>  use the new auto globals. I've tried $_REGISTER and $_POST .  Here is what
I
>  tried as a simple test.
> 
>  <form method="post" action="somefile.php">
>  <input type="text" name="is_name">
>  <input type="submit">
>  </form>
> 
>  --somefile.php--
> 
>  <?
> 
>  print("$_REGISTER["is_name"]");
>  or
>  print("$_POST["is_name"]");
> 
>  ?>
> 
>  I also tried $HTTP_POST_VARS["name"]
> 
>  I didnt think about it till now but would it work if i assigned say :
>  $is_name = getenv($_POST or $_REGISTER);
> 
>  this came about while I was learning sessions, which were not working
right
>  with 4.0 installed with APACHE on windows. So I decided to update my php,
as
>  an ISAPI module, instead of running as a cgi version, and I left
>  register_globals off.
> 
>  when I tried to edit an example session script I had from a book to use
>  $_POST, $_REGISTER, or even $_SESSION i got a blank page on the reload. I
>  think sid is returning empty.
> 
>  Can anyone offer me advice on this, proper coding and or proper
>  configuration in PHP.INI
> 
>  I'm trying to learn all this at once-lol, and learn it properly the first
>  time around, especially since register globas will be deprecitated-poof.
> 
>  I WANT TO BE A GOOD PHP DUDE_LOL_HAHA
> 
> 



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