Why won't variable echo?

Just moved web hosts and noticed that this:

<?php echo "$f"; ?>

used to work when there was an ?f= in the URL like so:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.html?f=yes

Now it doesn't at the new host.

I want to echo out "yes" in the HTML.

Any ideas?

TIA.

re: Why won't variable echo?

affiliateian@gmail.com wrote:
register_globals will be off on your new host.

Either enable it using .htaccess (if possible) or change all references
to eg echo $_GET['f']. The latter is the better option but if your site
is full of global references then as a short term solution you'll need
to get register_globals enabled.

More info here: http://nz.php.net/register_globals

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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

re: Why won't variable echo?

Chris Hope wrote:Thanks Chris, not sute how to enable register_globals but echo
$_GET['f'] worked! Thanks so much!

re: Why won't variable echo?

affiliateian@gmail.com wrote:Luckily.

Either make sure sure ALL your values are initialiased ($f = '' etc...),
or keep register_globals off (preferably both ofcourse), so your script
won't have to deal with variable values that have been set by a user on the
Evil Net, but only by youself, or a validated/checked request from the
user. That way you're reaonably sure what your sript does, instead of
intorducing unpredictable, and potentially harmfull, variables.
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Rik Wasmus

re: Why won't variable echo?

affiliateian@gmail.com wrote:Just at tip, for security reasons you may want to addslashes ie
addslashes($_GET['f]) else people could inject into your site.

re: Why won't variable echo?

aeg wrote:Addslashes won't do a thing here - except maybe screwup the output he's
echoing.

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re: Why won't variable echo?

"Chris Hope" <blackhole@electrictoolbox.comwrote in message
news:4536c656@news.orcon.net.nz...I have made it a habit to always write something like that as:

<?php echo '"' . $f . '"'; ?>

or

<?php echo $f; ?>

and I always say <?php


(single-double-single quotes)

Shelly

re: Why won't variable echo?

Jerry Stuckle wrote:He's relying on data from the url though, this could be dangerous
unless processed correctly