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. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php