I recently have experienced the same thing in upgrading from 4.0.0 to 4.2.3
All variables are now stored globally and can only be retrieved using $_POST['var'] or $_GET['var'] declarations i.e. $username = $_POST['username']; or get if your method was get in the form. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Qmail List wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm putting a php app that has been off-line for about 18 months back > on-line. During my absence from php I had heard about some security issues, > so figured I'd try the latest 4.2.3 release. > > Sessions and the DB are fine, but GET/POST vars are continually empty. I > mean a form submission from .html to .php (about the simplest thing > possible) the variables are not getting populated with their form values. > > Actually, phpinfo() does show the variables and their values if I throw it > in the .php file. But tailing the mysql log shows the following: > > SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='' AND password='' > > from this code. > > $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND > password='$password'"); > > > Regards, Thx > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php