extra stuff from variable

rrhody

Hi,

I am getting strange results from my code and am at my wits end trying to figure it out. Using <a href=\"cart.php?do=Drop&pid={$this->items["$key"]}\"> in my code works fine except that it doesn't give me the info I need, just the value of the variable. What I need is the key but if i just use <a href=\"cart.php?do=Drop&pid={$key}\"> or anything similar to that I get the key plus and additional "</td" added to the key. I have no idea where it is coming from or how to get the key without the extra showing up.

Does anyone know why this error is showing up and what I could do to fix it? BTE I am running php 4.2.3 on apache 1.3.24 on W2K.

Thanks
Roger

Weedpacket

It sounds as though the </td is ending up as part of the key itself. Try a print_r($this->items); - this will list the keys and values for the entire array.

Assuming that all the keys are ending with </td for some reason, the next step would be to look at where $key gets its value and see what's wrong there.

rrhody

I get Array ( [2 1 [3 1 ) from the print_r($this->items); command.
If I set another variable equal to the key and then print that variable, I get the correct info. However, when I add that new variable into the syntax of the table I still get the additional </td. So as far as I can figure the </td is not in the key itself, but is printing when I try to place the key into the html table. Since this is a shopping cart I am working on, the key is rather important.

Thank you

Weedpacket

Originally posted by rrhody
I get Array ( [2 1 [3 1 ) from the print_r($this->items); command.

Well, that display's broken (it should be [2]=>1, not [2 1

If you use the browser to view the page's source, you'll see what's happened, and that it's really displaying
[2</td]=>1 with the </td]=> being taken by the browser to be an HTML tag.

rrhody

You are absolutely right. I found out where the error was comming from. Thank you soooo much for your help. I was literally pulling my hair out.

Thank you
Roger