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  Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4 "Tim Rude" <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> - 2012-12-18 11:50 -0600
    Re: Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4 Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-12-18 17:55 +0000
    Re: Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4 Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-12-18 20:12 +0100
      Re: Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4 Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-12-18 14:44 -0500
        Re: Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4 "Tim Rude" <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> - 2012-12-18 14:02 -0600

#7840 — Gettting values from URL in PHP 5.4

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm a PHP novice.

We have been using PHP 4 on a page in our website to pre-populate some text 
boxes on a form. The text is passed as part of the URL.

Here's a sample url showing how the data is passed:

http://www.samplesite.com/mypage.php?name=Sample+Name&addr=123+Main+Street&city=Sometown%2C+AL+12354

Here's the code I use on the page to populate the form boxes:

<input type="text" name="on0" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $name; ?>">
<input type="text" name="os0" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $addr; ?>">
<input type="text" name="on1" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $city; ?>">

With PHP 4, it works perfectly.

Now our hosting provider is updating from PHP 4 to PHP 5.4. But with PHP 
5.4, none of the form boxes get populated. There's no error message or 
anything, it just simply leaves the form boxes blank as if nothing was 
passed via the URL.

What do I need to do to get it working with PHP 5.4?

Tim Rude

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#7841

On 2012-12-18, Tim Rude <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the code I use on the page to populate the form boxes:
>
><input type="text" name="on0" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $name; ?>">
><input type="text" name="os0" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $addr; ?>">
><input type="text" name="on1" maxlength="40" value="<?php echo $city; ?>">
>
> With PHP 4, it works perfectly.

If you wrote your code like that throughout your site, you have a lot of
editing to do. The correct way to reference a request variable is
$_REQUEST['key']. So replace "$name" with "$_REQUEST['name'] and repeat
that step for the other values.

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#7842

Tim Rude wrote:
> With PHP 4, it works perfectly.

The working of the code is actually not directly related to the PHP
version, but to the PHP ini setting "register_globals"
(<http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php>).  This setting has
been finally removed from PHP 5.4.

How to fix your existing code has already been explained by Salvatore.
I would prefer using $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE instead of $_REQUEST.

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#7843

On 12/18/2012 2:12 PM, Christoph Becker wrote:
> Tim Rude wrote:
>> With PHP 4, it works perfectly.
>
> The working of the code is actually not directly related to the PHP
> version, but to the PHP ini setting "register_globals"
> (<http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php>).  This setting has
> been finally removed from PHP 5.4.
>
> How to fix your existing code has already been explained by Salvatore.
> I would prefer using $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE instead of $_REQUEST.
>

I agree.  Use the proper array - $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE.

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#7844

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message 
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> On 12/18/2012 2:12 PM, Christoph Becker wrote:
>> Tim Rude wrote:
>>> With PHP 4, it works perfectly.
>>
>> The working of the code is actually not directly related to the PHP
>> version, but to the PHP ini setting "register_globals"
>> (<http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php>).  This setting has
>> been finally removed from PHP 5.4.
>>
>> How to fix your existing code has already been explained by Salvatore.
>> I would prefer using $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE instead of $_REQUEST.
>>
>
> I agree.  Use the proper array - $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE.
>

Thank you all. Fortunately I only have this code in 6 spots on one page, so 
it's an easy fix to add the $_GET.

Much obliged. :)

Tim Rude 

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