need help *old noob*

[carpekd]

I'm started writing php stuff back when php3 was around, and I got out of it for years.  Now, I'm getting back into it, and I'm trying to revive an old forum script I wrote.  I'm having an unusual problem.  It's probably something with newer versions of PHP that I don't know about

 

I want to call up a portion of code with the url: www.site.com/script.php?step=2

 

my code looks like this:

if ($step=="2") {

// do this code

}

 

however, it doesn't work!

 

what am i doing wrong?

[BlueSkyIS]

you'll probably need to use $_GET['step']

 

$_GET variables are no longer loaded by default.

[carpekd]

how exactly would I use that?

[BlueSkyIS]

 

$step = $_GET['step'];
if ($step=="2") {
    // do this code
}