That won't work because you have to actually send the form before using the variable $username.
Check your php.ini and make sure you have your error_reporting line set like this: error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE hope that helps, Nicole Amashta www.aeontrek.com "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I currently have been trying to learn PHP (as Apache module) and it doesn't > work. Through Apache I get this error: > "[Tue Feb 19 18:41:11 2002] [error] PHP Warning: Undefined variable: > username in ...filepath...\apache group\apache\htdocs\second.php on line 13" > > The book I'm using to program with PHP says that by creating a NAME value > for a FORM gives me a variable with that name (and '$' included infront of > it). However, it doesn't seem to work that way: > > Apache version: 1.3.23 > PHP version: 4.1.1 > OS: Windows XP > > I think Windows XP and Apache are the problem because on their site they > have listed this warning for XP: > > "If you will install Apache on Windows XP, be warned. There is a known bug > our users have identified; you may or may not encounter it yourself. It will > be fixed in the forthcoming Apache 1.3.24 release. The effects of this bug > within Apache 2.0 Beta are not yet determined. > It appears the combination of duplicating file handles between and parent > and child process, in conjunction with blocking sends to the http client, > may result in corrupted output. You may not see this in MSIE, which tends to > throw any error in the 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category. > > If you receive such errors on Windows XP using SSI scripting or PHP scripts, > but not static pages, you are probably a victim of this bug. It has been > reported to Microsoft, we have no further details at this time." > > The thing is though, the bug is kind of a strange one... not creating the > variable. Is that the result of Apache and XP or am I doing something > completely wrong (in the following code I also tried the echo function): > > --------------------------------------------CODE-------------------------- -- > --------------------------- > > > <HTML> > <BODY> > <FORM> > Please type your name here:<BR> > <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME=username><BR><BR> > <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"> > </FORM> > <BR><BR> > You typed: > <?php > print($username); > ?> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
