concatination

[Anon]

I'm trying to concatinate parts of several variables together and a number to form the value of a variable to have someones initials and that number (stored in $idtest). Is this the correct code to do this? I'm getting error messages at runtime with the below code. (I must do this; please don't ask why.)

$no = substr($memberfirstname, 1, 1);
$no .= substr($memberlastname, 1, 1);
$no .= $idtest;

[Anon]

It looks ok, except that your substrings are actually taking the SECOND letter of their name, not the first (offset starts at zero for first position).

What kind of run-time error are you getting?

-- Rich

[Anon]

Thanks
Getting the error of:
Parse error: parse error, expecting ';" in (URL of file on line etc.)

I want to get the first letter of both names
Is the code to accomplish that

$idtest = mysql_insert_id($result);

$no = substr($firstname, 0, 1);
$no .= substr($lastname, 0, 1);
$no .= $idtest;

[Anon]

You should use the link_identifier in mysql_insert_id, not the $result. The link identifier is what's returned from mysql_connect.

Other than that, your code looks correct. Maybe you forgot a semicolon or something elsewhere in your script and it's just causing the error as it gets to these lines?

---John Holmes...