[thelist] PHP form problems

[Sarah Adams]

> Maybe we step back a moment and see what I am doing in my very basic form
> handling script, which is hardly anything at all:
> 
> <snip>
> $name = $_POST["name"];
> <snip>
> 
> That's all there is to it. Like I said earlier, on my dev domain, I get all
> the info in my e-mail immediately, but on my clients domain, the email does
> come over - but it's totally blank. It's as if it has no idea that the
> variables contain any data I assume.
> 
> My client's server is running PHP 4.0.6, my dev server is running 4.4.4 ...

I think the problem may be that $_POST isn't defined in 4.0.6:
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.post
Quote: "Note:  Introduced in 4.1.0. In earlier versions, use
$HTTP_POST_VARS."

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sarah adams
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