On Thu, 16 May 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > Question:
> >
> > Are the following two statements really equivalent?
> >
> > 1) echo "select binary_junk, filetype from images where img_id = '92'"
> >
> > 2) $get_image = "select binary_junk, filetype from images where img_id =
> > '$imgid'";
>
> I would have thought them equivalent since img_id is passed into the
> script from the url (e.g. show_image.php?img_id=92). I think this
> right here is my problem. For some reason php is no longer accepting
> those values. Guess I'll have to go through the php.ini file and find
> out why it no longer does. PHP 4.1.2 did accept the passing of
> parameters.
Try a phpinfo script to see if globals are set, also didn't the newer
versions of php include cross site scripting changes? I don't know if your
script is on multiple site, but this could be a side effect of coding for
more security.
>
> > In particular, you might try doing an echo "$get_image" and see what shows up.
>
> I could try that. The echo was me at a command prompt of the linux machine just
> sending input into the mysql command-line program and sending the output to
> another file to at least see that it is finding the record.
>
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