Re: [PHP] register_globals and passing variables

2007-03-14 Thread Larry Garfield
Firstly, welcome to PHP. :-) Secondly, that's not how you would enable register_globals if they're not enabled. Thirdly, you do not want to turn on register_globals. register globals are a security risk. They're disabled by default on any recent (within the past 5 years) version of PHP, alth

Re: [PHP] register_globals and passing variables

2007-03-14 Thread Bruce Cowin
Hi Jeff, You want to leave register_globals OFF. Depending on how $charid is passed, you want to use $_POST or $_GET: $charid = $_POST['charid']; or $charid = $_GET['charid']; I think you'll need to do the same for your $db_select variable. Is that what you're after? Regards, Bruce >>>

[PHP] register_globals and passing variables

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff
Ok, all I am new to PHP & MySQL. (please don't let this scare you off) I had my site hosted with Gisol.com and due to their very poor service and tech support I left them for Lunarpages.com who so far have a better service and their tech support is excellent!! But my pages won't pass variables a