passing data via form

[excell]

sorry if this already been asked

when i pass data from a form to php page i get undefined variable error. Cant understand why. Do i need to edit somthing in the php.ini file.

<form action="login.php" method="get">
<input type ="text" name="user">
<input type="submit" name submit">
</form>



Next page

....


<?php

print " blah blah $user";

?>

Any ideas i sure its somthing simple

Thanks in advance

[Robbie]

Try something like this:

<form action="login.php" method="get">
<input type ="text" name="user">
<input type="submit" name submit">
</form>

login.php:
<?
echo"blah bla ".$_GET["user"]." bla bla";
?>


that because the $_GET and $_POST in Php 4.x

(kill me if I'm wrong :D )

[excell]

Aww

After that change i now get _GET undefined variable
So mabey somthing else ??

[firepages]

Robbies answer should work the only reason I can think of would be you havd PHP<4.1 and had register_globals turned off in which case ...

<?echo $HTTP_GET_VARS['user'];?>
should work, if not you have other problems:)

+ normally POST is the preffered method for form data

[excell]

Thank you very much for your help
works fine now