Why is QA being appended to my URL variables?

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May 13th, 2001, 12:44 AM

madmacks

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Please Help; Why is QA appended to URL variables?

I have a link like "index.html?showme=value". When a user clicks the link control is passed to index.html which includes a PHP include routine to grab the value of "showme" and then load the requested data to the browser.

I'm not able to get it to work using normal methods. I finally added a phpinfo dump and found out that the variable is being tracked as "QAshowme" in HTTP_SERVER_VARS[*]. When I refer to "$QAshowme" rather than "$showme" I get the correct value from the showme=value parm. What's up with this?

Where is the "QA" coming from? I don't think I've ever had this problem before. I'm using PHP 4.0.4pl1 (came with SuSE Linux PPC 7.1) and Apache 1.3.17. My priorversion didn't have this problem. Help! I've posted to the PHP forum and no one there has any ideas. I think this is an Apache/PHP issue.

Has anybody seen this type of result before? OBTW, it happens with any variables I send via ?var=value in a url...HELP!

Last edited by madmacks : May 19th, 2001 at 05:10 PM.

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