[SOLVED] PHP $_GET from a URL

[Richter12x2]

I did some searching and haven't been able to find any useful information.  I have a simple page that I'm trying to use as a shortcut for activating a user in a SQL database, but I can't seem to capture the variable.  I've found 5 or 6 pages now that say "This is how you do it" but obviously I'm missing something. 

 

Whenever the page is called - "activate.php?user_id=27" it displays "There has been an error processing your request" so I added the echo statements to confirm the variable is blank, and nothing prints, so it is.  If I manually set the variable $user_id = '27' then it processes perfectly.  What am I missing?

 

Here's the entire text of the page -

<? require("../dbsql.php");

$user_id = $_get['user_id'];
echo $_get['user_id'];
echo $user_id;



if ($user_id != '')
{
$sqlcUseredit="update userinfo set status ='A' where user_id=$user_id";
dbSQLinsert($sqlcUseredit);
echo $user_id." activated!";
}
else
{
echo "There has been an error processing your request.";
}
?>

[pocobueno1388]

I'm not sure if the $_GET is case sensitive or not...but try to capitalize it and see if it works.

 

$user_id = $_GET['user_id'];
echo $_GET['user_id'];

 

EDIT: Yeah, thats the problem. I just tested it.

[Richter12x2]

Son of a . . .

 

Thank you!