* Thus wrote Christian Calloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Ok, here's the deal. I like to use $_GET and $_POST variables without values
> to notify my scripts that some action must be taken. For example, given the
> following URL:
> 
> http://blahdomain/blah.php?productid=1&edit
> 
> or given the following form element:
> 
> <input type=hidden name="edit">

simply add a value="1" and it will fix your problem.

> 
> My blah.php script will check if edit set using the following line:
> 
> if (isset($_REQUEST["edit"]))
> {
> ..
> }
> 
> and then it will take the appropriate actions (lets just say its updating a
> record in the database). Locally I am running PHPv4.3.2, and everything
> works fine. I have been working on a large web-based application for the
> last month, and yesterday I put it up live. Our host unfortunately runs
> PHPv4.2.1 and I have no access to the conf files (those bastards) and
> globals are set to on. Low and behold, the isset function returns false when
> a $_POST or $_GET variable is passed but contains no value, which would be
> exactly the same thing as checking the variable itself:
> 


Curt
-- 
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