$_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST - Problems with Globals on/off??

[Ytud Fo Llac]

Hi,
I currently have a webspace on my College's website and want to use PHP to do some stuff, like passing variables from page to page. For this, I use all the common stuff like $_GET and $_POST. However, on the school server, $_GET and $_POST don't seem to work. Could this be because they have different settings for the Register Globals or something? Am i supposed to pass these variables in some other, more secure way? The server is running PHP 4.2.2, by the way. Thanks!

[NogDog]

The super-globals ($_GET, $_POST, etc.) were introduced in PHP 4.1.0, and so should be available. register_globals being on or off should have no effect on those arrays (which is why they should be used instead of depending on register_globals). So based on the information at hand, I do not know why you're having a problem.

[Ytud Fo Llac]

I tried printing out $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] and it's blank, but if i print out $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] it shows the URL and the variables in it.

[NogDog]

Most of the $_SERVER variables are largely dependent upon the web server to set them, so generally speaking none are absolutely guaranteed to be set in any given installation. To see which ones are being set on your server, you could do:

<?php
echo "<pre>".print_r($_SERVER, 1)."</pre>";
?>

[Ytud Fo Llac]

ha, it just started working, by itself, i swear the server must hate me or something. I changed nothing and refreshed the page and BAM, it works :\