[imphasing]

Okay, I have been studying PHP for exactly 5 hours now, and I just made my first script. A nice litte counter, that logs each hit into a text file. Now, onto my next project:

I would like to creat a homemade message board, you know, one of those nice simple things, that stack each message on top of eachother. I know how to write to a file, and things like that. (note, I'm not asking for someone to write out a script for me. I would actually appreciate it if you wouldn't. I need to learn this myself.) Here's the problem I'm having: I make a form, with a nice little text area, and submit button. Something like this:

<form>
<input type="textarea" name="text" >
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

but when I tell PHP to access the variable "$text", it doesn't do anything. Am I missing something? Is there some command to store form information into a variable?

If anyone could help me, that would be great!
thanks,
Alex

[Keith]

Sounds like register_globals are off.

PHP Code:

<?php



// use:

echo $_POST['text'];



// or:

$text = $_POST['text'];

echo $text;



?>