Try:
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')

and then read:
http://us4.php.net/reserved.variables

-Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: Amanda Hemmerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:13 pm
Subject: [PHP] bad programming?

> We just moved a bunch of code from one web hosting company to another.
> Now, one of the pages no longer works.  I have been sort of 
> starting from
> scratch, and the first line is still not working.  Am I using 
> somethingthat I shouldn't be?  Here is a code snippet:
> 
> if ($REQUEST_METHOD=='POST') {
>   for(reset($HTTP_POST_VARS);
>                      $key=key($HTTP_POST_VARS);
>                      next($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
>         $this = addslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS[$key]);
>         $this = strtr($this, ">", " ");
>         $this = strtr($this, "<", " ");
>         $this = strtr($this, "|", " ");
>         $$key = $this;
>   }
> }
> 
> The part that's not working is the $REQUEST_METHOD=='POST' line.  
> If I
> replace that with if ($login) (and $login is the name of the 
> submit button
> on the form), it works fine.  I am leary of using $login...any other
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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