If action

[Canman2005]

Hi all

Has anyone ever run into problems using the action query such as

[code]if ($action == "delete" && $id != "")
{[/code]

For some reason the web server I am using doesnt understand what the action is and simply ignores it, executing the first sql statement it can find on the page.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks

Ed

[Gaia]

Where are you getting the value of $action from?

[Canman2005]

[!--quoteo(post=352251:date=Mar 6 2006, 09:52 PM:name=Gaia)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Gaia @ Mar 6 2006, 09:52 PM) [snapback]352251[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
Where are you getting the value of $action from?
[/quote]


Via the form, so the form action might look like

<form id="form" method="post" action="page.php?action=delete">

[Gaia]

You'll still have to store the value into the variable.

[code]
$action = $_GET['action'];
[/code]

[kenrbnsn]

For this case you would need to use "$_POST['action']"

This has all of the standard problems that indicate that this is a gregister_globals enabled vs. disabled problem.

You should always program your scripts assuming that [a href=\"http://www.php.net/register_globals\" target=\"_blank\"]register_globals[/a] is disabled.

Ken

[Gaia]

Are you sure?

page.php?action=delete is the form action, meaning it will go to that url correct?

So, wouldn't you just have to check if ?action=delete is attached to the URL?

[kenrbnsn]

Sorry, my mistake -- I saw the action="Post" not the hard coded URL in the action. Yes, $_GET is correct.

Ken