method='get' and php/html

hello, this is been one heck of a day tring to get this to work...

I've got PHP iinstalled on my ISS server, yet I can not use the get method to pass data from a form into a php page.

I've come to the conclusion that somehow the get method donsn't work on my current setup, as even downloadable example don't pass the data to the second page.

Does anybody know how to set up PHP/ISS so that I can use the get method on the forum?

Thanks.

[stuart]

Do you mean IIS? I dont have any experience with ISS, but here is a few questions/thoughts anyway:

What happens when you manually append a querystring? do you have acces to that variable? - for example if you type in 'page.php?test=cool' and in the page 'page.php' have the script 'echo $_GET['test']'

What error do you get (if any).

Does POST work fine?

is register globals on or off?

what version of php is this?

just need a few more details

thanks for the reply...

I just started messinf with php yesterday...

Anyhow -
Yes, its IIS my typo.
PHP 4.3.2 (newset one on the php.net site), I used the windows installer and had it automically configure with IIS.

register globals are on, I changed that in an attepmt to get it to work.

I tried what you have posted and it works great, it displays exactally what it sould.

The line that is being passed on is like this:

orechart.php3?cargo=120&tri=1&pye=4&mex=16&iso=64&nox=256&zdy=1024&meg=4096

Maybe this is where I am confused, but how would I go about getting that data into the variables in the script page?

Can't I just use the "$cargo = cargo" line?

[stuart]

all variables that exist in you querystring are automatically available to your script and available through the $_GET[''] super globals, so you dont need to reassign variables to them.

for example if you querystring variable is myname=stuart, you can call this by using $_GET['myname'] (which has the value stuart).

Maybe a read through some tutorials and the manuals would help as would a good book.