Do you mind telling me where this php.ini is? And I tried the second attempt like this:
$query = "INSERT INTO friends (id, firstname, surname) values (nextval('friends_id_seq'), $_POST['firstname'], $_POST['surname'])"; which returns error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /local/scratch-1/ww220/Apache1.3/htdocs/test/add2.php on line 5 Oy Sat, 1 Jun 2002 16:57:00 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Dallas) wrote: > On Saturday, June 1, 2002 at 4:51:20 PM, you wrote: > > I got a simple form addform.html and add.php look like the following. > > But everytime I got empty value from firstname and lastname. It seems like > > the input value in the html page was not passed on to the php variable > > $firstname in add.php. Anyone give me a hand on this naive question? > > You probably have register_globals turned Off in your php.ini file. If you do > then you can either turn it on or use the recommended method of accessing > POSTed variable: $_POST['firstname']. > > -- > Stuart > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php