Variable Passing

Anon

Help.

HELP HELP HELP!

I've gone slightly nuts.

It's kind of hard to explain, but i'll provide urls...

http://www.mondaymorning.net/stuff/quiz.phps
http://www.mondaymorning.net/stuff/filmquiz.txt
http://www.mondaymorning.net/stuff/quiz.php?q_file=filmquiz.txt

It's a quiz script, and what i want to do is give someone with X amount of point the statement Y. It all works out dynamically from how many comments you have (which get turned into point stages) and the maximum amount of points you can get (in the example, it's 100). So it works out as 100 / 4.

All that isn't important 😉

What is important is that when i explode an array from a text file, it passes the variable once, but then it seems to "disappear".

I hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Anon

Hmm... I had a similiar problem... How did I solve it?...

Anon

Do you think you could remember how you solved it?

I'd be eternally grateful (well, as eternally grateful as i could be).

Anon

I'm at my wits end with this.

Not only can i not figure out what's going on with PHP, i feel like i'm being ignored by almost everyone that codes in php.

Anyway, i'll explain the problem further.

There's a line in a text file, which i've turned into the variable $text by using tail -n1 filmquiz.txt.

This returns 100#Message_1|Message_2||Message_3|Message_4

Now, i explode this initially by doing $pores = explode('#',$text), and setting $pores[0] to be $maxpoints (since it's an integer i use settype to change it first).

I print this in the default case statement, and it comes out 100. Good. Great.

Now, when i go onto the next case statement, it suddenly changes to 0, or worse, it disappears, and i get a nasty divide by zero error.

I have tried setting $maxpoints as a global, i have tried setting $maxpoints inside the case statement.

Nothing works. Somehow, it's just not seeing that variable, and it doesn't want to.

Please, for the love of god, someone help me.

Replying with messages like "i had a problem like that once, how did i get around it?" is NOT helpful.

C'mon! I just want a little help!

Thanks